this is true. i've been playing for about 3 years and i know all my chrods, major and Minor scales. Its funny you say that oh i can hear a G and play lol its funny cuz when i first heard Guilty of love by whitesnake i was like oh its a 1, 6, 4, 5 in the verse and a 6, 4, 5 with 1,6 ,5 in the chorus in the key of A major lmao
@NathanMantle Since you write out sheet music for piano, you can already write for any instrument. Congrats. Here's an exercise for you; look up Susan Voelz's "New Harmony Waltz" and write out the sheet music for violin, second violin, and guitar and let me know how you did it (listen only or play along to identify the notes and chords). FYI, I already did and also wrote an improv harmony for the last verse.
@NathanMantle "Learning a song by ear", as you put it, depends on the instrument you are playing. Some instruments play one note at a time; others are polyphonic. Stop limiting your thinking to guitar and piano. There are a myriad of other instruments. As for chord charts, I use them OCCASIONALLY when someone gives me guitar tab with lyrics and I see chords I'm not familiar with. I also use them fo find a "go around"; the guitar chord chart showed I can sub D7 for F.
@NathanMantle Since you seem to only play guitar, piano, and bass, I see why you find it difficult to understand what I mean about playinhg melody lines. I play the VIOLIN, the FRENCH HORN, the RECORDER, the VIOLA; none of these play chords. I play MELODY and HARMONY on these by ear and I don't have to know the chords or keys to play the songs. I also play melody and harmony as well as chords on my ELECTRIC and ACOUSTIC guitars; I OCCASIONALLY use a capo to play in keys D, G, or A .
@NathanMantle Tommy Emmanuel - master of fingerstyle, gypsy jazz and just about any other style. Barely knows any theory, can't read music and can hear a song once and play it.
@NathanMantle Let's see. If I am playing bass or violin'/fiddle, I don't have to know a Cmaj9, do I???? I just have to know the root of the chord, the melody line, the harmony line, OR do an improv of either the melody or harmony, right???
When you play as many instruments as I do, you will see just how irrelevant some of this nonsense you guys post really is.
@NathanMantle I DO know theory, being a previous music major in college. I also live in Nashville and know many musicians and have jam sessions with them. And no, bluegrass players don't always play in the same keys.
Whenever I don't know a chord, I LOOK IT UP on a chord chart or use a capo and play chords I am familiar with.
@NathanMantle I guess you didn't read my previous posts. I DO read and write sheet music. I also attend bluegrass jam sessions and DO play along with songs I've never heard before.
As for playing songs that use chord inversions, I can handle that too, especailly since playing the melody line does NOT depend on chords! Violins, French horns, and recorders don't play chords; they play notes.
Now, can you listen to a song and write out the sheet music for it for a specific instrument?
I also play inverted chords. And I use a Korg chord processor (that they don't make anymore) to show me the chords I don't know in root, first, AND secod inversions.
When people play enough songs and listen to music for 40 years, they KNOW a "C" when they hear one and know how to play it on instruments with which they are familiar. There is no mystery to playing by ear. You music reader types make music out to be some mystical force that cannot be mastered without knowing scales, keys, chords, etc. Well, I have news for you! I can play songs that people who read music CANNOT PLAY unless they have sheet music for it.
@jesuspunk33 That's how the two guys in ABBA came up with their songs. Benny and Bjorn would just sit around in the cottage and play chords and notes until they came up with a song. Bjorn said that they didn't write their songs down because if they couldn't keep it in their heads it wasn't particularly good anyway. It's called COMPOSING.
I like your video... You talk a lot of sense... People who say, 'I've never had a lesson in my life' is a bit on the aragont side... I take the humble approach & that way I become good at what I do... That's my motto...
@Birkosteve Then how did Ray Charles learn to play piano? They don't print braille sheet music. He learned to play by ear! Same with Jose Feliciano, Ronnie Milsap, Terri Gibb, to name others.
My mom never had lessons and she plays for church; she's also self-taught, like myself.
Then there's bluegrass players; they all play by ear and they are self-taught. They don't waste time on lessons. They either learn to play the piece or they don't.
@jamesadrian021957 'Self taught' people have limitations. Try interpret sheet music without ever hearing the original. Self taught people are merely using guess work to 'work out' the notes or chords. If they successfully found the chords F#m, Bm, D, C#m, whould they know what key scale they're playing in? Would they know what penta-tonic scale to solo with? What about 'Tonic Families?
@Topdoginuk I don't use sheet music. I couldn't care less about pentatonic scales. I hear a song, I play along with it and learn where to put my fingers and how to play the song. PERIOD.
I played in a cantata this last Christmas (it's on my YouTube channel) and the girl sitting next to me has been playing violin for 9 years. She is classically trained. However, she CANNOT play "Jingle Bells" without sheet music! How is it possible for someone who has had music lessons and vast experience not be able to play a simple tune "by ear"??
How do you explain those who sing along with the radio without sheet music? Or those who sing in church that can't read the sheet music in the hymnals? How are they able to sing on pitch without training or sheet music?
Same goes with instruments. Once you know how they work, you can play it. Just ask the lead singer of Alabama who in their first song said "I learned how to play the flat top from those good ol' gospel songs." No lessons, no sheet music, but they made it BIG TIME.
@jamesadrian021957 im not saying that music training is formal lessons. i'm saying it takes alittle practice and knowledge of music patterns to understand what's going on. and yes, it is easier for some people. some people have a more natural ability to hear melodies, so when they start trying to learn an instrument (in lessons or by themselves), then they have an advantage to make sense of the music patterns, or notes. reading sheet music has nothing to do with it.
@jamesadrian021957 dude... u obviously have absolutely no clue what ur talking about, and also didn't really listen to what he said in the video... hell I bet u can't even properly play an instrument... so why don't u keep ur thoughts to urself...
I think ur doing a great job with ur videos aaron... keep it up
@drunkpunk55 Listen, asshole, I play piano, guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, French horn, recorder, violin, viola. I played French horn for seven years in jr high and sr high band. I majored in music in college. I played in TWO university orchestras, one year each. I have composed original works. I have played for several churches. I have 14 videos on YouTube playing violin and keyboard.
Why don't YOU keep your thoughts to yourself, ASSHOLE!!!
About a minute into your video, you say that people who say they can play an instrument without lessons are either liars or prodogies is incorrect.
I taught myself violin in two months and went on to play in the university orchestra as a community member.
To be fair now, I played French horn in band from 7th-12th grade in jr/sr high and was a music major in college. It was there I found I could play piano without sheet music. I went on to teach myself guitar, recorder, and violin.
@jamesadrian021957 you misunderstood. I say people who say that they play by ear, but have NO IDEA what they are doing is false. Playing by ear is not grabing magical sounds out of the air and them somehow making sense in your head and you playing an instrument not having any clue of the patterns of music or anything. the examples i gave were that some people say that they play by ear and have never had lessons OR say they dont know what they are doing....
@aarontomberlin So how are people with no musical training able to sing along with the radio? They don't know one note from another, don't know anything about time or key signatures, measures, stanzas, meter, tempo, pitch, or any other characteristics of music, yet are able to sing along. Are they prodogies or musically gifted?
I'm not out to start an argument; just saying music isn't as hard as it's made out to be. It's been around for centuries and we all have some musical ability.
@jamesadrian021957 haha. im not agruing, just clearing up what i said. you got what i said all wrong. singing is way differeny anyway. hearing a pitch and then singing it is just the natural ability of the human mind and vocal chords, and some people do it easier than others. music definately isnt as hard as its made to be. ALL I WAS SAYING, is that when you learn an instrument, you must start somewhere. no one just starts out magically hearning sounds and are instantly good playing them.
@aarontomberlin True, one must know how to make the instrument make sound (woodwinds and brass aren't that easy starting out) and know where to put their fingers on the keys, frets, or fingerboard (violin/viola/cello/bass) for the notes they want, after that, it's a matter of practice and/or trial and error. Even though one can pick a riff on a guitar, to do the same on a violin takes time to learn a different finger pattern .the guitar is tuned on fifths and the violin is tuned on 6ths.
@aarontomberlin I have to disagree about singing being a natural ability. There are people who can't carry a tune in a bucket. There are those who have the voices of angels and some sound like they gargle with razor blades. There are those who sound like two donkeys screwing and some who really shine. Some may have natural ability and some have to go to music school for voice training.
@jamesadrian021957 and thennnnnnn, playing by ear is simply using the sounds and patterns that you've have learned on your own, OR have been taught by someone else and making sense of them in your head to play songs that you hear.
@jamesadrian021957 all i'm saying is that people who say they play by ear have some understanding of what they are doing, and know something about music and the patterns of music. of course you can learn to play piano without sheet music, but your previous musicial training helped you understand the music theory and musical patterns benhind the piano which made it easier to learn. from there, you can pick out chords by ear and play songs- which is playing by ear...
@jamesadrian021957 you know you hear some bragging people from time to time that say that they have no musical training at all, or have no idea what "music" is, but somehow they sat down at a piano and just started playing and they can play anything they hear without having any knowledge of what they are doing. thats just untrue... that would make them supernatural. it's kind of like saying you fully understand physics and mathematics without any type of help or previous knowledge.
@aarontomberlin I second this Aaron. I've met a few people who proclaim to be 'natural born Musicians'! They also have the tenacity to 'perform' for others what 'they've written'. I've often burst their trickery with just a few questions about transposing or if they use Dominant 7th chords or ask them to play something they're not familiar with.
Child prodigies are rare and non of 'em are born with inert abilities without learning from others.
When I get cantankerous nit pickers, I ignore 'em!
@aarontomberlin training your ear is far more important than learning a bunch of scales. Hendrix, Dylan, Keith Richards all these amazing players learn't that way. And after a while you reconise note instantly and it becomes second nature. The two most important skills a musician can have is perfect time and a real good ear. Great lesson by the way man.
@bannanabuttburger Really? I played "Nights In White Satin" on piano without sheet music the first time I sat down to play it and played it PERFECTLY. I taught myself violin in THREE WEEKS without sheet music and went on to play in the orchestra at Austin Peay State University for a year. I have composed music and recorded my own album, again without sheet music. I also taught myself guitar and bass guitar, again without sheet music. I learned songs by listening to them.
@jesuspunk33 but you see he was listening for a shania twang song, not top gun. I merely mentioned top gun to him he didn't play the whole song mind you but some of it. he only knew about where he was at on the fretboard and in his head said ok this is where the sound came from and he found it in that section of the fretboard. you would have me believe that that is from some kind of lesson i gave him or lessons long ago, that is in my mind playing by ear, and if im wrong then damn'it im wrong.
@jesuspunk33 not true, my friend had played piano and used to have a guitar but no lessons. while jammin (me on guitar, he on drums)with him we switched i started on the drums and he on the guitar and while he was messin around i heard two notes played just right and it sounded like the top gun theme song, so i told him that and i seen his eyes light up and immediately he started to play that song, only on one string mind you. Not because he is gifted, but because he understands intervals.
@jesuspunk33 you misunderstand. for example, you leared piano by figuring out note patterns and hearing tones. very good. but when you listen to a song and figure out the notes or chord progressions, you have an idea of what you are doing because you understand the piano note patterns, tones, and have previous developed an understanding of music BEFORE learning the song. thus, you are not just hearing a new song and playing it without ever knowing anything about piano. :)
by the way I've never had a lesson in my life but I did find out chords from a chord book that a friend gave me... but yeah I wouldn't count that as a lesson lol
I actually know how to play by ear and when I first picked up my guitar, I didn't know chords of course but I knew how to find what I wanted to play which back then I used to only play on one string haha but as I learned chords the first chord I learned was a barred G, A, and so on and just a few months after I already knew basic chords i could figure out most chords by ear by simply just finding the bass note of each chord and playing the barre version and then putting it into the simpler form
lol, ive been playing years and i know literaly, dozens of people whoknow some one, either there freind or son who play by ear, this guy knows the score, xcuse the pun
I've been playing guitar for 5years, practicing at least an hr a day. My cousin's been playing only 1 year. He has perfect pitch ear and now he plays better than I do. He makes his own chord/with own fingering. He even does Fuk you chord. (chord finger shape like this) - (^) I BLAME MY GENE AND GOD FOR THIS!!! ITS UNFAIR!
Nope, I'm from the north, it is certainly the same here. We use "Guys" to refer to guys and girls together. This is very common just ignore the feminist BS.
My dad can pick out licks and solos. But he has no clue what notes they are. All he learned were chords and chord progression. But like Aaron said (Aaron is my name too.) you have to have some sort of knowledge towards the intstrument to play by ear.
~Aaron
p.s. I am starting to train myself to play by ear on the guitar too, and I was taught better than my dad. I know a lot more about chords and scales than he doees now, and I've only been playing for a like 14 months. (A year and 2 months.)
I agree with Aaron there. I've been all over North America, and I say 'guys' and even 'man' when talking to women and no one minds, but I guess it's one of those 'feminist' things that wants us to revise language.
thanks for the lessons. it gets on my nerves that my uncle can just pick up the guitar and play any song on the radio.
TheLeftylegend14 4 months ago
HOLY SHIT!!! my name is aaron too and i was born in berlin. btw great lesson
randomekiller 7 months ago
this is true. i've been playing for about 3 years and i know all my chrods, major and Minor scales. Its funny you say that oh i can hear a G and play lol its funny cuz when i first heard Guilty of love by whitesnake i was like oh its a 1, 6, 4, 5 in the verse and a 6, 4, 5 with 1,6 ,5 in the chorus in the key of A major lmao
TheBeatlesfan1991 8 months ago
is it me or at 1:54 he says "buy shit" ???
k0ka1nch0 9 months ago
@k0ka1nch0 its you
MrHighwayADTR 8 months ago
Like I would take advice from a ginger.
CmCunt 9 months ago
@CmCunt bahaha he is no ginger. its the lighting.
katiekocina 4 months ago
@NathanMantle Since you write out sheet music for piano, you can already write for any instrument. Congrats. Here's an exercise for you; look up Susan Voelz's "New Harmony Waltz" and write out the sheet music for violin, second violin, and guitar and let me know how you did it (listen only or play along to identify the notes and chords). FYI, I already did and also wrote an improv harmony for the last verse.
jamesadrian021957 10 months ago
@NathanMantle "Learning a song by ear", as you put it, depends on the instrument you are playing. Some instruments play one note at a time; others are polyphonic. Stop limiting your thinking to guitar and piano. There are a myriad of other instruments. As for chord charts, I use them OCCASIONALLY when someone gives me guitar tab with lyrics and I see chords I'm not familiar with. I also use them fo find a "go around"; the guitar chord chart showed I can sub D7 for F.
jamesadrian021957 10 months ago
@NathanMantle Since you seem to only play guitar, piano, and bass, I see why you find it difficult to understand what I mean about playinhg melody lines. I play the VIOLIN, the FRENCH HORN, the RECORDER, the VIOLA; none of these play chords. I play MELODY and HARMONY on these by ear and I don't have to know the chords or keys to play the songs. I also play melody and harmony as well as chords on my ELECTRIC and ACOUSTIC guitars; I OCCASIONALLY use a capo to play in keys D, G, or A .
jamesadrian021957 10 months ago
@NathanMantle Tommy Emmanuel - master of fingerstyle, gypsy jazz and just about any other style. Barely knows any theory, can't read music and can hear a song once and play it.
skint0n0minted 10 months ago
@NathanMantle Let's see. If I am playing bass or violin'/fiddle, I don't have to know a Cmaj9, do I???? I just have to know the root of the chord, the melody line, the harmony line, OR do an improv of either the melody or harmony, right???
When you play as many instruments as I do, you will see just how irrelevant some of this nonsense you guys post really is.
jamesadrian021957 10 months ago
@NathanMantle I DO know theory, being a previous music major in college. I also live in Nashville and know many musicians and have jam sessions with them. And no, bluegrass players don't always play in the same keys.
Whenever I don't know a chord, I LOOK IT UP on a chord chart or use a capo and play chords I am familiar with.
jamesadrian021957 10 months ago
@NathanMantle I guess you didn't read my previous posts. I DO read and write sheet music. I also attend bluegrass jam sessions and DO play along with songs I've never heard before.
As for playing songs that use chord inversions, I can handle that too, especailly since playing the melody line does NOT depend on chords! Violins, French horns, and recorders don't play chords; they play notes.
Now, can you listen to a song and write out the sheet music for it for a specific instrument?
jamesadrian021957 10 months ago
@jamesadrian021957 NEWS FLASH!
I also play inverted chords. And I use a Korg chord processor (that they don't make anymore) to show me the chords I don't know in root, first, AND secod inversions.
jamesadrian021957 10 months ago
When people play enough songs and listen to music for 40 years, they KNOW a "C" when they hear one and know how to play it on instruments with which they are familiar. There is no mystery to playing by ear. You music reader types make music out to be some mystical force that cannot be mastered without knowing scales, keys, chords, etc. Well, I have news for you! I can play songs that people who read music CANNOT PLAY unless they have sheet music for it.
jamesadrian021957 10 months ago
This guy plays it so wierd all u need to do for the courus is E,B,Cm,A
jf09 11 months ago
@jesuspunk33 That's how the two guys in ABBA came up with their songs. Benny and Bjorn would just sit around in the cottage and play chords and notes until they came up with a song. Bjorn said that they didn't write their songs down because if they couldn't keep it in their heads it wasn't particularly good anyway. It's called COMPOSING.
jamesadrian021957 11 months ago
I like your video... You talk a lot of sense... People who say, 'I've never had a lesson in my life' is a bit on the aragont side... I take the humble approach & that way I become good at what I do... That's my motto...
Birkosteve 1 year ago
@Birkosteve Then how did Ray Charles learn to play piano? They don't print braille sheet music. He learned to play by ear! Same with Jose Feliciano, Ronnie Milsap, Terri Gibb, to name others.
My mom never had lessons and she plays for church; she's also self-taught, like myself.
Then there's bluegrass players; they all play by ear and they are self-taught. They don't waste time on lessons. They either learn to play the piece or they don't.
jamesadrian021957 11 months ago
@jamesadrian021957 'Self taught' people have limitations. Try interpret sheet music without ever hearing the original. Self taught people are merely using guess work to 'work out' the notes or chords. If they successfully found the chords F#m, Bm, D, C#m, whould they know what key scale they're playing in? Would they know what penta-tonic scale to solo with? What about 'Tonic Families?
Like I said, self taught = limitations.
Cheers.
Topdoginuk 10 months ago
@Topdoginuk I don't use sheet music. I couldn't care less about pentatonic scales. I hear a song, I play along with it and learn where to put my fingers and how to play the song. PERIOD.
jamesadrian021957 10 months ago
Here's an excellent question for you Aaron:
I played in a cantata this last Christmas (it's on my YouTube channel) and the girl sitting next to me has been playing violin for 9 years. She is classically trained. However, she CANNOT play "Jingle Bells" without sheet music! How is it possible for someone who has had music lessons and vast experience not be able to play a simple tune "by ear"??
jamesadrian021957 1 year ago
@jamesadrian021957 I've been classically trained in guitar for about 3 years and I cant play by ear too. Hence looking up this video. hehe.
calendor01 1 year ago
How do you explain those who sing along with the radio without sheet music? Or those who sing in church that can't read the sheet music in the hymnals? How are they able to sing on pitch without training or sheet music?
Same goes with instruments. Once you know how they work, you can play it. Just ask the lead singer of Alabama who in their first song said "I learned how to play the flat top from those good ol' gospel songs." No lessons, no sheet music, but they made it BIG TIME.
jamesadrian021957 1 year ago
@jamesadrian021957 im not saying that music training is formal lessons. i'm saying it takes alittle practice and knowledge of music patterns to understand what's going on. and yes, it is easier for some people. some people have a more natural ability to hear melodies, so when they start trying to learn an instrument (in lessons or by themselves), then they have an advantage to make sense of the music patterns, or notes. reading sheet music has nothing to do with it.
aarontomberlin 1 year ago 4
@jamesadrian021957 dude... u obviously have absolutely no clue what ur talking about, and also didn't really listen to what he said in the video... hell I bet u can't even properly play an instrument... so why don't u keep ur thoughts to urself...
I think ur doing a great job with ur videos aaron... keep it up
drunkpunk55 10 months ago
@drunkpunk55 Listen, asshole, I play piano, guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, French horn, recorder, violin, viola. I played French horn for seven years in jr high and sr high band. I majored in music in college. I played in TWO university orchestras, one year each. I have composed original works. I have played for several churches. I have 14 videos on YouTube playing violin and keyboard.
Why don't YOU keep your thoughts to yourself, ASSHOLE!!!
jamesadrian021957 10 months ago
About a minute into your video, you say that people who say they can play an instrument without lessons are either liars or prodogies is incorrect.
I taught myself violin in two months and went on to play in the university orchestra as a community member.
To be fair now, I played French horn in band from 7th-12th grade in jr/sr high and was a music major in college. It was there I found I could play piano without sheet music. I went on to teach myself guitar, recorder, and violin.
jamesadrian021957 1 year ago
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katiekocina 1 year ago
@jamesadrian021957 you misunderstood. I say people who say that they play by ear, but have NO IDEA what they are doing is false. Playing by ear is not grabing magical sounds out of the air and them somehow making sense in your head and you playing an instrument not having any clue of the patterns of music or anything. the examples i gave were that some people say that they play by ear and have never had lessons OR say they dont know what they are doing....
aarontomberlin 1 year ago
@aarontomberlin So how are people with no musical training able to sing along with the radio? They don't know one note from another, don't know anything about time or key signatures, measures, stanzas, meter, tempo, pitch, or any other characteristics of music, yet are able to sing along. Are they prodogies or musically gifted?
I'm not out to start an argument; just saying music isn't as hard as it's made out to be. It's been around for centuries and we all have some musical ability.
jamesadrian021957 1 year ago
@jamesadrian021957 haha. im not agruing, just clearing up what i said. you got what i said all wrong. singing is way differeny anyway. hearing a pitch and then singing it is just the natural ability of the human mind and vocal chords, and some people do it easier than others. music definately isnt as hard as its made to be. ALL I WAS SAYING, is that when you learn an instrument, you must start somewhere. no one just starts out magically hearning sounds and are instantly good playing them.
aarontomberlin 1 year ago
@aarontomberlin True, one must know how to make the instrument make sound (woodwinds and brass aren't that easy starting out) and know where to put their fingers on the keys, frets, or fingerboard (violin/viola/cello/bass) for the notes they want, after that, it's a matter of practice and/or trial and error. Even though one can pick a riff on a guitar, to do the same on a violin takes time to learn a different finger pattern .the guitar is tuned on fifths and the violin is tuned on 6ths.
jamesadrian021957 1 year ago
@aarontomberlin I have to disagree about singing being a natural ability. There are people who can't carry a tune in a bucket. There are those who have the voices of angels and some sound like they gargle with razor blades. There are those who sound like two donkeys screwing and some who really shine. Some may have natural ability and some have to go to music school for voice training.
jamesadrian021957 11 months ago
@jamesadrian021957 and thennnnnnn, playing by ear is simply using the sounds and patterns that you've have learned on your own, OR have been taught by someone else and making sense of them in your head to play songs that you hear.
aarontomberlin 1 year ago
@aarontomberlin Exactly.
jamesadrian021957 1 year ago
@jamesadrian021957 all i'm saying is that people who say they play by ear have some understanding of what they are doing, and know something about music and the patterns of music. of course you can learn to play piano without sheet music, but your previous musicial training helped you understand the music theory and musical patterns benhind the piano which made it easier to learn. from there, you can pick out chords by ear and play songs- which is playing by ear...
aarontomberlin 1 year ago
@jamesadrian021957 you know you hear some bragging people from time to time that say that they have no musical training at all, or have no idea what "music" is, but somehow they sat down at a piano and just started playing and they can play anything they hear without having any knowledge of what they are doing. thats just untrue... that would make them supernatural. it's kind of like saying you fully understand physics and mathematics without any type of help or previous knowledge.
aarontomberlin 1 year ago 12
@aarontomberlin I second this Aaron. I've met a few people who proclaim to be 'natural born Musicians'! They also have the tenacity to 'perform' for others what 'they've written'. I've often burst their trickery with just a few questions about transposing or if they use Dominant 7th chords or ask them to play something they're not familiar with.
Child prodigies are rare and non of 'em are born with inert abilities without learning from others.
When I get cantankerous nit pickers, I ignore 'em!
Topdoginuk 10 months ago
@aarontomberlin training your ear is far more important than learning a bunch of scales. Hendrix, Dylan, Keith Richards all these amazing players learn't that way. And after a while you reconise note instantly and it becomes second nature. The two most important skills a musician can have is perfect time and a real good ear. Great lesson by the way man.
skint0n0minted 10 months ago
@jamesadrian021957 apparently you dont have any idea of what your talking about
bannanabuttburger 11 months ago
@bannanabuttburger Really? I played "Nights In White Satin" on piano without sheet music the first time I sat down to play it and played it PERFECTLY. I taught myself violin in THREE WEEKS without sheet music and went on to play in the orchestra at Austin Peay State University for a year. I have composed music and recorded my own album, again without sheet music. I also taught myself guitar and bass guitar, again without sheet music. I learned songs by listening to them.
jamesadrian021957 11 months ago
@jamesadrian021957 thats cool man, im just saying most people that say they can are lying. but ill take your word for it.
bannanabuttburger 11 months ago
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@bannanabuttburger Don't just take my word for it. Check out my videos under my screen name.
jamesadrian021957 11 months ago
@jesuspunk33 but you see he was listening for a shania twang song, not top gun. I merely mentioned top gun to him he didn't play the whole song mind you but some of it. he only knew about where he was at on the fretboard and in his head said ok this is where the sound came from and he found it in that section of the fretboard. you would have me believe that that is from some kind of lesson i gave him or lessons long ago, that is in my mind playing by ear, and if im wrong then damn'it im wrong.
CKS5000 1 year ago
@CKS5000 Her name is Shania TWAIN, even though she MIGHT sing with a twang. ha ha
jamesadrian021957 1 year ago
@jesuspunk33 not true, my friend had played piano and used to have a guitar but no lessons. while jammin (me on guitar, he on drums)with him we switched i started on the drums and he on the guitar and while he was messin around i heard two notes played just right and it sounded like the top gun theme song, so i told him that and i seen his eyes light up and immediately he started to play that song, only on one string mind you. Not because he is gifted, but because he understands intervals.
CKS5000 1 year ago
I totally agree.
alexmejia26 1 year ago
Dude, is that a Takamine EG440C??
ReakeiC 1 year ago
fuck this laptop i cant hear anything >:(
Elvisyoan 1 year ago
@jesuspunk33 you misunderstand. for example, you leared piano by figuring out note patterns and hearing tones. very good. but when you listen to a song and figure out the notes or chord progressions, you have an idea of what you are doing because you understand the piano note patterns, tones, and have previous developed an understanding of music BEFORE learning the song. thus, you are not just hearing a new song and playing it without ever knowing anything about piano. :)
aarontomberlin 1 year ago 4
by the way I've never had a lesson in my life but I did find out chords from a chord book that a friend gave me... but yeah I wouldn't count that as a lesson lol
uzn88 1 year ago
Don't know if my last comment would help somebody figure out chords the way I do
uzn88 1 year ago
I actually know how to play by ear and when I first picked up my guitar, I didn't know chords of course but I knew how to find what I wanted to play which back then I used to only play on one string haha but as I learned chords the first chord I learned was a barred G, A, and so on and just a few months after I already knew basic chords i could figure out most chords by ear by simply just finding the bass note of each chord and playing the barre version and then putting it into the simpler form
uzn88 1 year ago
lol, ive been playing years and i know literaly, dozens of people whoknow some one, either there freind or son who play by ear, this guy knows the score, xcuse the pun
strabbs1 1 year ago
but guys think who ever plays by ear onli knows 1 teachique
but if u learn the theory side and apply it to learning ear u wil be un stoppable
archieblaster 1 year ago
I've been playing guitar for 5years, practicing at least an hr a day. My cousin's been playing only 1 year. He has perfect pitch ear and now he plays better than I do. He makes his own chord/with own fingering. He even does Fuk you chord. (chord finger shape like this) - (^) I BLAME MY GENE AND GOD FOR THIS!!! ITS UNFAIR!
Jayce1219 2 years ago
thats how i am i dont now wat the cords are or reading music on gutair
nolifeATALL23 2 years ago
another excellent video from you bro, another enlightenment :)
markmuana 2 years ago 4
your a great teacher
Izzyd666 3 years ago 15
Great lesson , aaron hope to see more from you.
Cazaq 3 years ago
Nope, I'm from the north, it is certainly the same here. We use "Guys" to refer to guys and girls together. This is very common just ignore the feminist BS.
arg13415 3 years ago 2
feminist bs?
skinny3600 2 years ago
My dad can pick out licks and solos. But he has no clue what notes they are. All he learned were chords and chord progression. But like Aaron said (Aaron is my name too.) you have to have some sort of knowledge towards the intstrument to play by ear.
~Aaron
p.s. I am starting to train myself to play by ear on the guitar too, and I was taught better than my dad. I know a lot more about chords and scales than he doees now, and I've only been playing for a like 14 months. (A year and 2 months.)
effectsmaster1 3 years ago
I agree with Aaron there. I've been all over North America, and I say 'guys' and even 'man' when talking to women and no one minds, but I guess it's one of those 'feminist' things that wants us to revise language.
Samofakind 3 years ago
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Hi Aaron. You always say what's up guys. What about the females that are watching you. Dont you think that offends them a little? Just a heads up...
EHMTalentShow 3 years ago