Learning songs by ear: A how to.

Brock · Post by **Brock** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 8:11 pm

i'm afraid josh is correct here

fatjack · Post by **fatjack** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 8:12 pm

bbatsell wrote:i'm afraid josh is correct here

yeah, scary when it happens huh?

DMBFan63 · Post by **DMBFan63** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:25 pm

fatjack wrote:
bbatsell wrote:i'm afraid josh is correct here
yeah, scary when it happens huh?

it happens all too often too, yet people continue to try to argue with you like they're right.

i like tictacs · Post by **i like tictacs** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:19 pm

fatjack wrote:
i like tictacs wrote: When you write a song, that's how you do it, right? You have a chord structure and you create a line that fits that structure.
since when? writing this way is whyy so much popular music sounds the same. if you write your progression first and then your melody, you will end up with a cookie-cutter melody. most classical composers and trained modern ones will do the melody, then harmony.

This is for bass. I don't often write my basslines before my guitar parts.

Lord Of The Flies · Post by **Lord Of The Flies** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:01 pm

I just wrote what my music teachers have always taught me, as well as Wikipedia. You may be right, but I still stand by what 13 years of my life has taught me.

Lord Of The Flies · Post by **Lord Of The Flies** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:02 pm

Wait a second, what fatjack wrote was exactly what I was trying to say.

i-am-me · Post by **i-am-me** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:16 pm

that's definitely not what you said....haha.

Lord Of The Flies · Post by **Lord Of The Flies** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:45 pm

When I said "relative pitch is for listening" I meant exactly what fatjack said, because I thought it was implied.

I fail at getting my point across.

Andre_GT7 · Post by **Andre_GT7** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 1:43 pm

MWR wrote:
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MattyTrane · Post by **MattyTrane** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:57 pm

THis is nature vs. nurture.

buttermuffin4 · Post by **buttermuffin4** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:04 pm

I have a suggestlet, a no brainer, if you will, you have to have an ear for music!

Yesterday I realized how incredibly obsessed I am with it, I hear any random noise, a chair being moved, I think 'hey, that sounded like f#' all the time!! If you can't hear a note and repeat it or know which one it is, it makes it a lot harder and it takes a lot longer to learn something by ear.

But I am a violinist. . we don't play chords, we play keys.

whiteysax · Post by **whiteysax** » Mon May 28, 2007 6:02 pm

playing by ear is knowing what note to start on for me. From there it's just being able to hear the interval you're looking for before you play it. Years of ear training helps too

whatshername · Post by **whatshername** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 3:32 pm

i CANNOT figure out the chords to this piano-based song. can someone help? it's called "earth and venus" by andy davis, you can find it on youtube

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