Hello My Good People,
I have a great idea for ear training… and you can do this for an exercise for the rest of your life if you want…
It will help keep your ears is shape because you can tune your guitar to many different tunings…;D
Use this website to tune your guitar if you want
http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/utilities/tuner/
Training Exercise
-hit one string to let your ear hear it… maybe do it 2 or 3 times and really listen to the note….
-purposely put that one string out of tune….. most of the time the stings will loosen over time and that means the string will sound lower
-open up the tuner above (or just use a normal tuner)….
-try to remember what that string sounded like before you put it out of tune….
-tune the string without the tuner (from what you can remember in your head)
-now tune the string (with the tuner) and see how close you come….:D
-repeat this a few times on the same string so your ears get used to it
Over a consistant period of time your ears will adapt the sounds and remember….
I have spent time also doing that with chords…..
for example.. play a chord in your head and see how close you come….
also when we repeat chord progressions our ears remember the order of the chords and how they sound together…:D
After a long period of time you can hear the note in your head …..
most of the time I can tune very close…within a few cents…;D
A few things to know
-a semitone (one fret on a guitar) is made up of a measurement of cents
-there are 50 cents in every semitone
-most tuners show these measurement
Cheers,
Bryan
Bryan Rason
