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NOT ONE PERSON I know who plays in bands with me ever took any ear training course or studied it who didn't get a college music degree (which is most of the people I play with). that seem to have been told, or read somewhere and have taken it as gospel, that they need "ear training". There seem to be all these people - young people, inexperienced people, newbies, beginners, people with no musical training, etc. Because it's a valid problem, and a common issue.īUT - you, like many people, have fallen into "the Myth of the Ear" (I might start calling this "Mote".). OK, your post was downvoted but I added one back in. So, does anyone has food for a thought? Because this long process has been way sad for me actually. I can sing Eb, F, F# and Bb from memory, but I don't have instant recognition of them in a context. It seems like it doesn't matter if I play major scales all day I can memorize them, the intervals, the actual relations between them, and this is damn frustrating.Īnother thing very frustrating is that I know what makes a pitch, and I can recognize that it IS a pitch, but I don't know what they are. I have melodies in my head, but every time I try to compose with them is such a nightmare, because it's hard to even know the possibilites of what I'm making, if it's minor, major, lydian, dorian. The songs doesn't, but what does it matter if I don't even know which scale is being played? It just feels like knowing the words of a language but you can't organize them in your head or even write it down.Īnd it feels as if even I practice arpeggios or scales every day, they doesn't seem to connect, to actually have a personality for each of them to be played. And I often think I'll never have the ears or skills to do that.įor me, not having perfect pitch is a bummer, because I feel my ears will never know the sounds of the scales, because every scale just sound the same.
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The fact is it seems that knowing this lot of music only puts pressure in me, because I don't know how to do anything near to the stuff I often listen to.
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I've always been an avid music listener and spent tons of thousand of hours on listening to music, new music, jazz music, metal, fusion, funk, folk and many other stuff, but it seems my ears always tend to go to the same things when I'm playing music. I started learning more theory, being able to know some triads and recognize some patterns, but still, it seems like I've stopped there without evolving my aural skills or my cognition on how to play better, perform better.
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Maybe I'll use this post to vent a little, but in the end, I think I just need an advice on how to make it better.Īnyway, I've been studying music for some years now, but I started taking it really seriously in 2020.