> On Jul 4, 6:20 pm, "RichL" <rpleav...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > lookwhereallthistalkinggotusb...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > > I've always been amazed how somebody can sit down and tune their
> > > guitar without a tuner? Or how somebody can sit down and hear a
> > > fairly simplistic riff in a song and fret it on their axe within a
> > > minute or two?
>
> > > Now, I'm sure it took a lot of practice to get to that level, but what
> > > steps did these guys take in their practice to get to that point?
> > > What exercises will help me identify notes, chords, key I hear in a
> > > song within a minute or two? Perhaps it's not as easy as they make it
> > > look, but I want to get there. I understand playing mechanics pretty
> > > well now, but when it comes to tone, I'm lost like the wayward
> > > son. :-)
>
> > It's hard to explain precisely how one develops this ability. I think
> > it's different for different people, and some people don't have the
> > capacity for it although that doesn't necessarily impede their ability
> > to become great musicians.
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> > For me, I had piano lessons as a child and for some reason the teacher
> > identified me as a good candidate for ear training. She would sit me in
> > a chair in a different room and play notes and chords and ask me what
> > they were. She started with single notes and then moved on to
> > increasingly complex chords, and I'd just sort of intuitively know what
> > they were.
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> > The theory nazis in alt.guitar.beginner claim that what I have isn't
> > perfect pitch because an A4 note played at 435 Hz instead of the usual
> > 440 Hz doesn't give me headaches. Still I can identify notes in a song
> > without a pitch reference.
>
> > But this "near perfect pitch" ability isn't a necessary part of ear
> > training. To me, most people who can carry a tune singing you can learn
> > to identify notes in music, and even some who can't find ways to do it.
> > You can start by learning to distinguish major and minor chords and to
> > recognize different musical *intervals*. Listen to songs that you're
> > familiar with and try to do this. If you can sing or hum a melody, take
> > a short section of a song you know and dissect it by attempting to play
> > each note on the guitar. Then look at the guitar and see what the
> > various intervals between the notes are.
>
> > If you work at this enough, eventually your mind will learn to recognize
> > the intervals that you hear without the necessity of your having to work
> > through it on guitar. Use the same approach with chords; when you play
> > chords on the guitar, start thinking about what the difference is that
> > you hear between say a straight C chord and a C7 chord. Pretty soon
> > your mind will be telling you when it hears that seventh form. And so
> > on.
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> > I realize that this is all sort of vague but I think there's no set
> > recipe because we all learn in a somewhat different manner. Since I was
> > very young, I've been able to play songs (within limits of my technical
> > ability) by listening to them and getting them in my head. If I can hum
> > or sing it, generally I can play it.
>
> You're so full of crap.
Mark Bedingfie…
Hotfoot
