EAR TRAINING VS AURAL SKILLS HOW TO

One of my close friends who started playing about the same time as me had more aural skill within his first three years of playing than I have now, he just seemed to take to it incomprehensibly fast. My old guitar teacher is astonishingly fast at transcribing.

I’ve always been envious of the musicians I knew who just seemed to be able to hear everything instantly. It makes transcribing feel like a chore, or at best a labour of love. Transcribing most songs is pointless busywork, and transcribing complex music can become very difficult and time consuming with little benefit. However, no amount of transcribing or supplementation with interval and chord recognition exercises have helped me to get beyond this stage. Pitch has been the only thing which has given me problems.Īgain, I don’t think I have “bad” ears. I have a very good sensitivity to timbral characteristics, for example, on a typical guitar part I would have little difficulty identifying the broad type of guitar and the pickup position, the type of amplifier, etc. I can recognise and internalize rhythms quickly. I’m sure in part that some of the time, resorting to grade D is the result of my perfectionism, a need to get every detail just right, rather than “good enough.” I have only very rarely experienced grade A, and I sometimes find myself in grade D when transcribing complex music, or when dealing with a confusing timbre (synth sounds, etc). On this gradation, I would say that I’m typically between grades B & C.

EAR TRAINING VS AURAL SKILLS HOW TO

I don’t know any methods for doing this, so I just wouldn’t even know how to start - or I might do it but I’m not confident what I figure out is right.

I could do it in that case and probably be accurate, but it would take foreverĮ. I’d really have to go super slow, note by note with a slow downer to be able to do it. I’d have to listen back, check individual phrases, spend a bit of time on each phrase, but I could do it.ĭ. Can play it with a few minutes of tooling aroundĬ. I can sit down with a guitar and more or less play it instantlyī. THE (Super Ultra Hyper Mega Meta) Ear Training PostĪ.

Ear training vs aural skills