I am an amateur guitarist/keyboardist. I try playing vocals by ear and sometimes its really frustrating...i dont know how to even start!! how do i ear train for relative pitch? please help...give me exercises, websites anything!! this thing is REALLY frustrating!!
2007-01-10 06:07:38 · 4 answers · asked by netsavvy_sashi 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
go to www.good-ear.com and go to perfect pitch. it is a free pitch trainer and it also has some other features.
For about 100 bucks you can also go to perfectpitch.com and buy an audio teacher.
2007-01-10 06:14:22 · answer #1 · answered by Jonny 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well playing by ear is something you kind of either have or don't have. I suggest you learn to read music. It's not as hard as you may think and will give a much broader understanding of pitch and rhythm which in turn will help you with playing by ear. Some people have a very keen ear for pitch and find it easy to find the key note of a song on a keyboard or guitar fretboard. Perfect pitch, true perfect pitch is being able to tell someone what note they are playing by only hearing it and not alot of people have that. I have only ever met one person with true perfect pitch. You need to learn a little more about the fundamentals of music, scales and chords before you can jump in and start playing by ear.
2007-01-10 06:18:09 · answer #2 · answered by Next evolutionary step... 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok... try this... this is a tuning exercise but should help.
on your guitar, put on some distortion with pretty high gain, use the pickup closest to the bridge (near the bottom) and make sure all your volume/tone knobs are all the way up
ok now make a natural harmonic on the fifth fret of the low e string, and then also on the seventh on the a string. let them both ring. if you are perfectly in tune, it will sound exactly the same. if you aren't, you will hear a pulsating sound. that is how you know if you have the right note or not. if it is smooth, you have the right note. if the sound warbles, its wrong.
another helpful trick is to try to realize if the note is higher or lower to your note. to do this either move farther up or down until you can tell for sure that it is way off. once you've done this, go ahead and start heading higher/lower towards the right note
good luck!!! ^_^
2007-01-10 06:16:42 · answer #3 · answered by Gino R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well, i'm not an expert at guitar, but i asked my older cousin (who is one heck of a guitarist!) about this, and he told me that it takes alot of time until you can develop playing what you hear...probably 4-5 years! but things are different from person to another...but keep trying and something will come up...i feel your frustration, i keep trying, sometimes i do it and sometimes i can't.
wish you the best, good luck :)
2007-01-10 06:15:10 · answer #4 · answered by Valencianista 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋