Thursday, March 19, 2026

27 thoughts on “Unlock Your Ear (The Most Effective Ear-Training Drill I Know)

  • I honestly didnt learn a thing till i literally spent 5 hours a night playing along to every song on my itunes playlists. Then i started listening to music and humming like crazy. I not only learned how to play guitar but to sing and play piano. Its amazing. I literally find myself automatically gravitating to pitches. Its wierd. The humming is what I think finally locked everything together. Within a span of a month(after 5 years of unfocused dabbling with tabs and theory) i was able to discern intervals and ever the qualities of tones in a scale. I can totally hear maj 7ths and extentions, tonal changes etc. Honestly i saw this video and couldnt believe it because everything in here I picked up in bits and pieces. The drone notes, the humming. I hope people watch this and realize this is the "one big secret" video. I wish you had made this 5 years ago, but honestly figuring it out myself is probably what made me successful.

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  • it took me 2 years to start using my ears instead of heavily relying on tab and its honestly so relaxing to learn a song by ear rather than pouring over a tab trying to figure out how to play the transcriber's terrible phrasing

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  • This is excellent – simple and quick. Some of the ear training videos and courses I have tried are just wacked in comparison. This is straight forward. I like it

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  • My dads a musician and sound engineer and although he’s not as technically as good as the kids he works with he always grabs a guitar when the song sounds thin in places and adds. Interesting chords. They can’t work out how he comes up with such great and unusual chords. They ask me how he does it… it’s very much this technique he always hums and feels his way around all he knows is basic theory and he can work
    Anything out

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  • "Good set of ears" means, KEEP YOUR GUITAR ON YOU EVERYDAY, YOU MUST IMMERSE YOURSELF IN THE INSTRUMENT. EVERYDAY!

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  • I've been humming as i run though my arpeggios. I'm about 6 months in. And i did interval listening training about 3 months in. I can hear the main stuff; major, minor, 7s, sus 2… and even inversions to an extent. It was almost automatic for the arpeggios that i hum daily

    Of course, I'm not very good at it, but i thought I'd take years… not months.

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  • You list the C chord backwards and the numbers are the frets. Root should be listed first!

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  • Is there a Playlist for all of these videos? I've been looking for an ear training course that focuses on naming the notes and chords. The most popular audiobook on this seems to only compare minor and major chords without naming them and I don't understand. Thank you for this beginner version

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  • Everybody has their own method either you have or you don’t this is ridiculous waste of time learn open 2nd and filth position

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  • 01,00 if singing freaks out a would be musician maybe he should go play football instead —- though he still might have to sing a bit, the poor fkkr

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  • It's funny that the third is actually so hard to hear compared to the root and the fifth. Well that note technically determines if it's major or minor. But then again I guess you kind of figured it out by the feel of the chord

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  • Thank you, thank you, thank you. In the short time listening to the video I was amazed I started to hear the separation. Now for more practice

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  • So how do you know what the songs are tuned in? Most rock songs are in standard E but many kiss songs are tuned differently? So generally speaking is there an easy way to tell how each song is tuned?

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  • If you play guitar and are trying to learn how to ear train
    THIS IS THE VIDEO U NEED TO SEE !

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