Re:Learning Synths
by esistgut on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @01:53PM
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I'm trying to learn guitar in my 30s and I'm really struggling with the ear training parts. Can you point other resources like this one?
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The most useful tool I've found is Perfect Ear for Android and iOS. It's not as full-featured as GNU Solfege, but it covers all the important stuff and it's far easier to dip into when you have a spare moment.
If you're a late beginner/early intermediate player and trying to move past the chord shapes and scale patterns rut, I strongly recommend William Leavitt's A Modern Method for Guitar. It's hard - really damned hard - but it's logical, the difficulty curve is fairly linear once you get past the shock of traditional notation, it inculcates good habits from the outset and it provides you with a very broad base of technique that is applicable to all styles of guitar.
https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Method-Guitar-Volumes-Complete...
> The most useful tool I've found is Perfect Ear for Android and iOS. It's not as full-featured as GNU Solfege, but it covers all the important stuff and it's far easier to dip into when you have a spare moment.
Oh man, I missed this app when I switched from Android to iOS. So glad it's finally on iOS!
You should check out GNU Solfege.
I will, thank you.
Re:Learning Synths
by wesleyfsmith on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @05:35PM
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One technique I use is to noodle in some scale, then whatever note I land on try to play that note's chord by ear. You'll hit a lot of wrong chords at first but over time your ear will get better.