Learning Songs/lesson By Ear, Is it that important? Should I practice it? |
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Learning Songs/lesson By Ear, Is it that important? Should I practice it? |
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May 6 2008, 08:18 PM |
Hi, from time I see one lesson where the instructor mentions that we should learn by ear and look in the tab if needed.
Well, I wonder why is that important in first place? I mean. Of course, there are so many bad tabs around the world. But for the lessons we have the guitar pro file made by the very same person who composed it. And for tabs we can buy a good songbook... So should I spend time learning by ear even if I can do it much much quicker by looking at the tab? Sometimes I can hear a song and figure out some chords without even going to the guitar. But should I practice this to the point where I can play a shredding part by ear? I would like to hear specially from more experienced guitarists how learning by ear affects overall playing... -------------------- my "Thank you GMC!" video
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May 6 2008, 10:40 PM |
Learning by ear is important because you - develop your ear. You ear is essential when being a musician. So, less tabs, more ear practicing. In the end we all wanna play by ear, and you will not get there by "cheating" with tabs.
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May 6 2008, 11:02 PM |
By ear is very important. Knowing that and knowing in your head how the intervals sound on your guitar is important for fluent playing and understanding instead of just repeating imo
And by ear is a must incase your band has two guitarists and you get challanged for a guitar duel on stage ..or if you're with Ian Gillan and there's a vocals vs guitar duel -------------------- My bands homepage
All time favourites: B. Streisand - Woman in Love, M. Hopkin - Those were the days, L. Richie - Hello |
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May 6 2008, 11:31 PM |
I see some interesting points here, such as becoming a better overall musician and stage player...
But besides the guitar duel should I really go to the point that even the shreddiest parts of songs I should try to learn by ear? -------------------- my "Thank you GMC!" video
If you like it please vote in the competition ;-) Gus Stairway to Guitar Heaven - my practice agenda Check out my lesson here Phrygian Dominant Solo lesson Gear : Ibanez RGT320q (I just love the neck-thru sustain), Washburn EA-20SDL (acoustic 6 string), Standard strat (Mexico), POD X3 Live Some of my Guitar heroes: Jimmy Page, Slash, Kirk Hammett, Augusto Licks, Joe Satriani, Gus G, David Gilmour, Mark Knopfler... |
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May 7 2008, 11:27 AM |
For me the ears always come first, after all I listen to music, I don't read it Of course there is no problem in crosschecking something if you have good tabs, and of course there are licks that are very hard to be reproduced by only listening to them, but it is for sure very important to train your ears as much as you can.
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May 7 2008, 11:33 AM |
whats a good way to train the ear?
is there any lessons on gmc for ear traning? ive not come across any |
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May 7 2008, 11:46 AM |
The more you try and learn by ear the more you`ll pick up familiar licks etc, sure some of the trickier bits you may need the tab, but if you`ve done most of it by ear then it`ll only be a question of a quick look for reference, depends if you MUST play a solo totally note for note, in my band we play a lot of covers, and I generally listen to the solo`s without tabs, I can get something near but also add my own improvised parts to kind of put my own stamp on it if that makes sense, that way you end up with a solo that sounds close but its not a complete mimic of the original I agree, I don't see much use of a note per note solo but rather make it sound alike is good enough. -------------------- My bands homepage
All time favourites: B. Streisand - Woman in Love, M. Hopkin - Those were the days, L. Richie - Hello |
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May 7 2008, 02:38 PM |
Thanks for all replies.
I can see my ears get more trained even if I never cared about that (simply because I am playing more). But now that you guys convince me to make some more "formal" ear training , what would you recommend? -------------------- my "Thank you GMC!" video
If you like it please vote in the competition ;-) Gus Stairway to Guitar Heaven - my practice agenda Check out my lesson here Phrygian Dominant Solo lesson Gear : Ibanez RGT320q (I just love the neck-thru sustain), Washburn EA-20SDL (acoustic 6 string), Standard strat (Mexico), POD X3 Live Some of my Guitar heroes: Jimmy Page, Slash, Kirk Hammett, Augusto Licks, Joe Satriani, Gus G, David Gilmour, Mark Knopfler... |
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