Playing Guitar By Ear: Unlock Your Ear To Musical Freedom

Name: Playing Guitar By Ear: Unlock Your Ear To Musical Freedom
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Play Guitar By Ear to Massively Improve Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Music Theory, Songwriting, Transcription, Improv

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Created byErich Andreas

Last updated 6/2023

English

What you'll learn

How to play guitar by ear.
How to better one’s “ear” to become the best musician one can be.
How to intelligently understand what one is hearing by developing aural awareness.
How to use some basic musical rules, along with the ear to learn the notes and chords of songs with ease..
Basic music theory which will help musicians quickly identify notes and chords used for transcription, improvisation, songwriting and a myriad of other uses.

Course content

1 section • 30 lectures • 3h 4m total length

Introduction3:29
Relative Pitch vs Perfect Pitch5:26
Explain the difference between relative pitch and perfect pitch, show how relative pitch enables playing by ear, and address tone deafness as not a barrier to development.
Playing Guitar by Ear is THAT Easy3:20
Orchestral Conductors & Babies4:56
Notes on the Fretboard5:37
Hum and Hunt Method: Melody First11:17
Apply the hum and hunt method to develop melody by ear, hum a note, guess its guitar position, move chromatically on a single string, and learn melodies from songs.
Stationary Springboards2:51
Movable Springboards4:00
Active Listening5:16
Construction of the Major Scale4:42
Identify the 1,4,5 Using the Bolt Method3:29
Chord Flavors (Major/Minor/etc)8:06
The Capo is Your Friend3:36
Finding the Tonal Center & Why It’s Important7:20
Three Powerful Ways to Find the Tonal Center of A Song3:58
Song Components for Organization2:39
Song Example: Won’t Stop Loving You10:48
Song Example: Lose You Tonight6:53
In real time, learn to find the tonal center and determine the key by ear, using tuning, capo, bass notes, and chords like C major and D minor.
Song Example: Underneath the Wheels6:13
Identify the tonal center by ear to reveal the key—often Bb minor or its related major—then anchor with six core chords and capo guidance.
Song Example: Whisper to Me11:26
Song Example: Death & Taxes9:12
Identify the key and tonal center with capo and the hum and hunt method, and explore diatonic chords plus flat three, flat six, flat seven as outside chords.
Song Example: Folsom Prison Blues6:34
Identify the tonal center of Folsom Prison Blues by applying the hum and hunt method, explore key choices, chord progressions, and seventh chords to play by ear.
Song Example: He Stopped Lovin’ Her Today9:16
Song Example: House of the Rising Sun8:37
Song Example: Don’t Fear the Reaper7:37
Song Example: Suspicious Minds9:55
Chords That Don’t Occur Naturally7:23
Chord Substitutes (Sister Chords)5:40
Chords Extensions3:20
Conclusion1:56
Practice using the tools and song examples you've learned to sharpen your ear and playing; consistent practice unlocks continual improvement with no limit.

Requirements

An open mind and a desire to develop new tools that will rocket you forward as a musician.
Willingness to identify musical patterns on the guitar which will revolutionize how the player hears/“sees” music.

Description

Have you ever desired to play guitar by ear? Have you ever watched your favorite guitar hero seemingly grab melodies out of thin air? Have you ever seen a musician listen to a song and then start playing it right away, including chords?

If you answered yes to any of these, you are in the right place. As a young musician with limited funds and no Internet, learning to play guitar by ear was what I relied on for many years and is the most important and indispensable tool a guitar player/musician can have.

In this 30 lecture course I immediately dispel the myth that only some people can play guitar by ear, and show you how a newborn baby and an orchestra conductor will hear music the exact same way… but will interpret it differently. THAT is the key to this whole course!

I then show you a small set of extremely powerful yet easy to use tools that will allow you to take what you've heard and find it on the fretboard with ease(a skill that will continue to get better with use).

Then, after learning some very basic music theory patterns, I show you how to find the tonal center/tonic of a song and use the same rules to determine the chords for 10 popular songs.

By the end of this step-by-step, easy-to-follow course, you will not only know how to play 10 new songs, but more importantly, you will be able to bring this skill to every song you desire, making you an unstoppable musician.

Jump in right now and let me show you how dead simple playing guitar by ear actually is!

Prepare to amaze yourself!

Erich

Who this course is for:

This course is for anyone desiring to better their “ear” and understanding of music to make playing music easy and fun. After all, music is an aural sport!
Lead guitar players, rhythm guitar players and songwriters in rock, blues, jazz and virtually any genre that uses notes and chords.