Identifying Chords |
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Identifying Chords |
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Feb 23 2009, 12:53 AM |
Do you mean recognizing extended type of chords like
sus4, add 11, maj7 etc or just simple stuff in progression like Am, E, F, Dm and something like that? Anyhow, for both cases the only thing you need is well trained relative pitch and you can really practice it, there are many drills and exercises for that, even dozen of softwares with nice exercises. Finding simple type of chords in simple progression is probably easiest by thinking of degrees. But of course you need to know how each degree chord sounds like. Per example, hit C chord and take it as a root., listen to it. Now play F chord and try to realize it's relation to C chord you had before. That is sound of 4th degree chord in any major key. So lets say that you are learning song in key of A major and you got the first chord which is A major. Then you HEAR 4th degree later on in progression which is D major. You can try same thing with all 7th degrees, major and minor keys. As for hearing extended chords, it's also relative pitch thing in a way but more like being able to recognize "color" of maj7, dim7, sus4 etc. You need to play and listen to everything you play, every single chord, after some time your ears will do rest of the job and send correct information to your brain. -------------------- Youtube
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Feb 23 2009, 01:02 AM |
I mean more about finding out which chord they hit. For example say that i didn't know Em9 (i do but pretend i didnt), how would i work out what the notes were. Because if you're trying to figure out something and you don't know what that chord is you'd have to find out what notes were played and from there you could then find out what chord it is Well, that might be pretty hard road! I mean, you can eventually find all notes of Em9 chord by ear but if you don't have enough knowledge of that kind of chords it just might take you too long I'm afraid, which sometimes isn't bad tho, figuring things out by ear always brings progress. But I would first learn more about those chords, play them in many tunes, got used to them in a way and then try to find them in music by ear, has more sense to me. -------------------- Youtube
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