MarTay6 -> RE: Teaching someone how to pick up chords by ear (Aug. 8 2011 12:26:24)
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Good video, Ramzi- I don't know how long you've been in music- I sense a good part of your life?? I started playing piano when I was 7 or 8... with my father trying to teach me. I learned scales, played for a couple of years, then started saxophone when I was in 5th grade. I got out of playing music when I graduated from high school, but then started playing guitar when I was 30 or so. When I began to start trying to figure out chords to songs, and how to play songs on the guitar, I felt I had that same instinctive ability once I began to "hear the chords". In most music, a simple song is based upon 3 chords, and once you figure out where the guitar is capo'd, and find the 1st chord or key, the other chords come easy. I think that our ability to pick out the chords is due to understanding scales, the concept of scales- what a scale sounds like in our head- due to many years of exposure to them. Also, different chords- say, a C- a D and a G chord have a different structural sound to them- so we hear those... We instinctively KNOW what a G chord sounds like, no matter where the guitar might be capo'd. Of course, as we capo up the neck, the chord name changes- but the "Structural Sound" of the chord remains the same. I think this is probably the basis of ear training. It's based on familarity with the sound of music- scales and chords. I don't think some people "have it" and some don't- I think some people have simply been exposed more to it- and have played it- and thus it is imbedded into our mind. Starting early is a huge asset in this process, as with so many other topics. Those who start on music, computers, etc. just seem to gain a leg up from starting learning in those early years that people just can't catch up on when they start later on in life. Which, I suppose, by my own definition, means I'm pretty much screwed for learning much more! Wes
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