I think one thing that helped me with my ear was singing songs as a child. My parents siad that when we would go visit my mere' mere' in Canada(not sure of the spelling for a french grandmother), I would sing every single song I heard in French. I don't know any French at all (go figure). Solfege is...

That was me who started the post :D . I am happy that you enjoyed the post. Eartraining is a long graduall process and not something that hits you all at once. My ear is now fairly powerfull now thanks to years of eartraining. The reason why we do all this eartraining is to increase our musicianship...

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The 80's hair days were about impressing other guitar players and is a very hard habit to break. I have found playing the guitar thinking like a wind player helps a lot. A wind player has to take a break to breathe which creates better musical phrasing.

I absolutely love the "80s" for all the guitar heroes, but I must admit it took me a long time and a lot of conentration to break the SPEED RULES habit :-D I still catch myself playing fast with no real sense of rhythm. At this point, I am concentrating on two beats rhythm patterns instead...

I am glad you find it helpfull :-D I have found this link to be very helpfull especially for songs that I have a Fakebook for but have never heard the music. This was the main issue when I was growing up and is the reason I was stuck in the "80's for a long time" I still have friends that ...

Thank you very much for the reply :-D I know how frustrating learning eartraining was in the beginning. For me it was a very slow process. I had to ask "Why is this so difficult". That question made me listen in a way that made sense for me. I can now get very high scores on a lot of the e...

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Hello everyone. My name is Steve and I would like to share some of my experience with you. Hopefully it will help some other musicians who feel overwhelmed. I have been playing guitar and studying music for 27 years now. There are days where I feel like I found the holy grail and times when I feel ...

Sorry, I put this post in the wrong discussion... How can I delete my previous post (Posted: Oct 07, 2008 5:05 am)? There is no delete this post checkbox.

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Hello everyone. My name is Steve and I would like to share some of my experience with you. Hopefully it will help some other musicians who feel overwhelmed. I have been playing guitar and studying music for 27 years now. There are days where I feel like I found the holy grail and times when I feel l...