Harry Potter The Moives

Before beginning, you should know the basics of tuning a guitar and playing many different chords. The most important thing to do to learn how to play guitar by ear, is to listen to a lot of music recordings that feature the guitar prominently. You need to be able to hear what is actually being played. Pick a recording of something you would like to use to learn how to play guitar by ear.

Tune your guitar using a tuner, pitch pipes, or harmonica. Most recordings will have the guitar in standard tuning: E, A, D, G, B, E, from the largest to smallest string. However, some guitar recordings, such as Stevie Ray Vaughan or AD/DC, will have all the strings tuned down one note. In such cases, you can find the lowest note on your guitar that is close to the first bass note in the recording. Then, tune that string so that the note on your guitar is the lowest note in one of the basic guitar chords. Then, tune the guitar with that string as a reference.

That chord is the tonic or 1st chord, and is also the name of the key your song is in. You can tell if it is major or minor by checking to see which chord sounds best when played at the beginning of the song. This is the most important chord for that song.

Next, find the 5th chord. This is the dominant chord. Count 5 notes from the tonic chord, in the series ABCDEFG. When you hit G, loop back to A and keep counting. As an example, if your tonic chord was E major, then the fifth note you count should be B. The dominant chord is always major, so B major is the 5th chord.

You can find the subdominant, or 4th chord in the same way. For E major, the 4th chord is A major. The 4th is minor for minor keys.

Always remember that the tonic chord is the most important chord in any song. Everything in the song is centered around this 1st chord. In Western tonal music, changing from the 5th to the 1st chord is a fundamental movement. This chord change happens at the end of most songs, and also at key places in a song. It often appears at the end of a verse or chorus. Also, the 5th chord is often in the 7 form. In the key of G major, for example, the 5th chord will often be played as D7 rather than just D.

Whatever happens before this movement from 5 to 1 depends on the song. The most basic pattern is 1-4-5-1. Rock and country songs will usually have a variant of this pattern, such as 1-4-1-5-1. Jazz songs usually have some variation on a theme of 2-5-1. In a major key the 2nd chord, the supertonic, is minor.

The 6th chord, or submediant, is often important in rock and pop. After the other 1st, 4th, and 5th chords have been added, the 6th adds variety anywhere in the song. It is often the first chord in the bridge of the song.

As you learn more songs you'll start to see common patterns. It will be obvious that some artists use the same pattern over and over. This makes it easy to learn more of that artists songs.

Try this stuff. You will start enjoying yourself almost immediately. The more you do it, the easier it will be to learn new songs. Trying different styles will make you even better. After a couple of months, you will be proficient at simple songs. After a few years, you will be confident about learning most songs you hear.