How To Learn Songs Without YouTube Tutorials

going what's every what's up everyone I can't even speak today um this is going to be a fun episode the title how to learn songs without YouTube tutorials okay this is kind of something that that I think about that people rely on YouTube tutorials so much that they really don't learn to develop their ears and they they just don't have the skills even though they do have the skills but they're just undeveloped like how do you actually figure out what you're hearing and reproduce it on your instrument I've got a piano here I've got a guitar here uh in case we need the the piano for anything but um but I want to uh show you things to listen for um and part of this I put into practice with my ear training course which is on sale and this is my uh this is my plug here it's my ear training course is on sale I'm running the sale from last week again 89 bucks for all four my courses ear training my bat book uh interactive these are all video courses uh my my beginner guitar course and my quick lessons Pro which is intermediate guitar course all four of those for 89 bucks that's how I finance the channel blah blah blah you know the deal um so it came to um I I realized this that people rely on these so much that they that they're losing their their skills are atrophying or they're just undeveloped how what do you listen for when you're trying to figure out a song okay we'll talk about some guitar songs we'll start with but there's a lot of different things for example how do you get your guitar in tune with a song right and now obviously there's a lot of uh uh things you can use your tuners but if you don't have a tuner you have to turn tune to the song okay so let's say that my guitar is a little bit Out Of Tune I'm turn turn some my I just D- tuned my guitar a bit here so it's not going to be quite in tune so the first song that we're going to learn is U this is like what I used to do when I was a kid I had to figure them out because there was no YouTube and there was no Tab and then when I was a guitar teacher from 1994 to to 1999 here in Atlanta at Buckhead music I taught 12,000 guitar lessons I was basically the YouTube tutorial before they existed okay so let's just talk about this what do you listen for first so the first thing we're going to listen for right here I'm going to play this song it's a rolling stone song that you'll know but it starts out okay now the first thing I listen for was like okay that doesn't sound like a string that sounds like that sounds like a harmonic okay now you may not even know what that is and it's and it sounds like my guitar wasn't quite in tune with that so I'm going to tune my guitar now based on that harmonic you see this [Music] s okay there we go so my guitar was slightly Out Of Tune with the first note so I Ed the first note as my tuner we used to have these things that these things you blow into that were a pitch pipe you carry in your guitar case that's how you tune so you have that harmonic and then the first chord okay now I know that's an A minor chord and I can hear that because I have this what I call a um kind of a dictionary of chords that I recognize instantly and the open chords of the guitar I recognize instantly when I say the open chord chords they're basically the 10 chords that you need to learn in my beginning guitar course these are the 10 first 10 guitar chords I learned a minor would be one of them E minor G Major D major C major um a minor what I or a major E major B minor would be one and F major be one and D Minor you can play a lot of songs with those chords you can figure out most songs like hey Joe has e then c g d a e um so he Joe starts with this with the harmonic I'm sorry H Ang let's listen to it okay there's a there's a little Lick in there right so when I first heard this I was like what is that note and I'd go I I could hear I I messed around till I till I find I figure I figure it's probably within he's still holding down the a minor chord so that really the only note it could be is right there so some of this stuff you have to just use common sense if they're adding a note it's probably within a hand it's not going to be up here at the fifth fret right Keith Richard is not going to play that it's not going to be back here at the second fret well it might be oh that's kind of cool actually right so it's right there third fret okay now there we have now that chord is a really unusual chord it's not one of the 10 chords you need to know this is something that you actually need to use your ear for so I would hunt I was like where is that note D okay so I know those notes well it's not that he's probably holding this down sounds like and I hunt it around that's not it that's it so then that b no he plays that G sharp there that's not in any chord books there that chord okay and [Music] then okay now that's another thing that you wouldn't find in a chord bug U this is G sus4 right all already we're we're into leagues Way Beyond what you would do but this is what you had to be able to do it's like where are those notes I KNE I could hear I could hear those notes and I was like uh oh maybe I could play it like that right those are the same notes but that's not where they're played so it's like you so I'm using common sense that sounds like a chord that's held I can't tell if it's a bar chord I can hear the notes same notes but sounds completely different I can tell when notes are closed okay I can tell that those notes are all Fred because they they don't ring like this that open string has such a different tone to it right so I'm using common sense and my ear I don't need to know intervals intervals are helpful though they are like what are the intervals there um that's here comes the bride perfect fourth da is a major second da it's a perfect fourth above that note so d right there that's what ear training is right it's training your ear to be able to hear these separate intervals and then you hear I hear those notes I hear um so so that that's how I began to learn Angie right and then you hear that uh say uh and then then you [Music] hear and I hear you can [Music] be so once again all these little fills this is actually a really tricky song to learn but if you know what to listen for I if it's anything beyond you know Hey [Music] Joe [Music] uh Hey Joe uses can be played with all open chords although hrx uh plays enclosed positions on some of it okay um what about songs that are not even in standard tuning so when people would bring me stuff to figure out like what uh I started teaching guitar in '94 people were bringing in grunge songs and one of the songs everybody wanted to learn is this [Music] song okay come as you are I heard that I thought okay maybe it's in drop D but I could hear that no but then but the next note sounded like an open string to me so if I went no that's definitely not it listen to it even though it's got got a lot of chorus on it [Music] listen [Music] [Applause] by so I thought oh my God he's tuned down a step if those two notes are tuned down a step that note's got to be tuned down the whole guitar has got to be tuned down a step so tuned down so so right there these little things like this and I'm using common sense and I'm and I'm trying to to to to refine the sound try to learn when you're hearing an open string versus a Fred note they sound very different open strings have a a brightness to them uh they they have a maybe tanginess to them even with these effects on I could tell that's what it was and then you got to figure like well it's probably not that weird of a thing to play Kurt's probably playing it down here once you have the tuning down it's easy to learn the song so so and now when I'm tuning the guitar back I'm just matching intervals perfect fourth da I'm listening for the intervals that's how I tune the thing I use intervals when I say intervals what is an interval an interval is a distance from one note to the next you have two types of intervals you have harmonic intervals meaning it's played as a Harmony or together that's a harmonic perfect fourth ba d g right A D perfect fourth E A so I use those intervals to tune the guitar with I don't have to use I could use harmonics to fine tune them but now I'm back into perfect tune with the guitar right so I've I've tuned down for come as you are but figuring out the tuning of these things do the song have a has a have a capo on it there's there are many many different things is this song in tune with standard pitch I'll I'll show you another song that was a really a one that was tricky to learn black old son okay I can hear I can hear this I'm like that's not right that sounds like that it's like that sounds like it's some type of drop D but it doesn't even sound in tune cuz I can recognize this I can recognize that chord shape because I know the sound of of a drop D power chord I recognize those intervals but I'm but I'm like that's not in tune with standard pitch okay so what do you got to do with this so you got [Music] to it's not quite in there say so I'm like [Music] um so this tune because it is because it's not quite in Pitch with standard pitch you've got to tune the guitar to the song because they sped it up I believe in down they sped it up from drop D because the song is actually played here [Music] ah and the way I can tell that is because there's a little quick open [Music] string and when it gets to that chord there I know I can hear that open D string in there [Music] listen you hear that low b boom that b boom you can hear those are open strings in there b boom he's playing that low open string in between each time and it's drop [Music] D I mean that's what what it is basically right there but it's uh but the guitar is pitched up so you'd have to um the tuning the tape is pitched up sounds like you can hear that's open you can hear that that's an open string here that that would be the chord that last chord now there's no way they're playing that right so I I know [Music] logically there's no way Chris Cornell is playing that so that's how I knew to tune the guar differently to play the song you got to combine your ear and Common Sense listen for open strings where they're played because that is like a key part of this he's using the open strings to Pivot off of okay to to play these uh to play these licks okay so this was a really hard song to figure out back then and once you'd learn the tuning then you have to explain to your students okay it's not in standard pitch all this stuff so [Music] once again I'm tuning using these intervals there I don't need an electric tuner all I need to do is I know what a perfect fourth interval sounds like okay um so in ear training this is uh my ear training course basically starts out with intervals with basic intervals seconds then thirds and fourths and fifths we start with those a second is either a half step or a whole step so this is a minor second or a major second you need to be able to hear it what those intervals are whether they're played separately which is called melodic interval or uh or if they're played that would be a harmonic interval or um uh or if it were like this this is a A melodic interval because I played one note at a time and armonic interval so a major scale is a that's a major second major second minor second major second major second major second minor second or whole step whole step half step whole step whole step whole step half step whole step whole step half step whole step whole step whole step half step which is why I'm shifting positions and it doesn't matter where I play the that's why I can play these scales anywhere on the neck because I understand on two fronts I understand what the sound of the next note is going to be and I know it's either going to be one fret or two Frets away okay that so that's using uh that's using interval training okay it's using my ear to to tell me what the next note is and it's using this knowledge that you get of understanding what um what the uh harmonic relationships or melodic relationships are with these intervals okay so this is how you figure out songs really quickly okay so let's say you get into something that's that's much more difficult um a song like this was was very hard to figure out this is Josie by Ste Dan okay so you've got you have a piano and a guitar together sounds like electric piano and guitar together so it's really tricky to figure out what is playing what I can hear I can hear B you that interval is a minor 7th interval this is a perfect song for ear training I hear that note moves down a step now I just have to figure out what the other note that goes with that and then I hear I hear two perfect fifths intervals together listen [Music] listen then now these chords are really hard to get they could be played [Music] here right now those things take a while this is one of the hardest songs to figure out when I was a kid I I rewound that a million times that's why my ear is so good is from trying to figure out these songs that actually were incredibly difficult to learn without YouTube tutorials right and people were like oh my God how did you figure that out okay so what about other songs that uh if you have a song like this that may have a 12 string no I didn't know this was the 12 [Music] string um I could tell that's a that's so this is a d suspended four I hear it now this particular song using a 12 string it doesn't quite sound right without a 12 string I didn't know what a 12 string was until I went into music lover shop in 197 6 with my mom when she went to um when I went to get my first guitar that my mom bought for me for $120 a Penco 12 string I had heard 12 strings and I didn't realize what I was hearing when I played this thing it blew me away and I that's my first guitar I learned on is a 12 string Believe It or Not which is kind of a weird thing but More Than A Feeling was a huge song then and when I played that I was like oh my God that's the sound when I played Zeppelin that's the sound you know uh [Music] uh all of the sudden that playing Tangerine playing all these Tunes I was like it's a 12 string I didn't even know what what one was okay but then there were some other things right that that are not in Pitch does it have a capo on it okay these are things like some something doesn't lay easily you're like okay is it um is is it a capo that's doing it or or what like what what is it that [Music] um what is it like how do you know when there's a cap I have a I have a super chat in here a couple super chats first of all thank you so much John for that that's amazing I really appreciate it um tal writes here um what is in the bundle I think I think that's what it is I can't why can't I click on that what is in the bundle I want to learn this okay so in my bundle T is um is my ear training course which is uh has 28 videos in it no it's got more than that I forget how many videos are in a lot of videos It's got a whole music theory section that goes with it and um and it has all this programming so it tracks your progress as you go through each interval as you go through recognizing chords are they major or minor are they suspended chords are they suspended with an ad nine are they you know dominant seventh chords are they dominant s sharp nine chords dominant 7 flat nine um is it a 145 progression is it a 6251 progression is it a one major 3 major four minor 4 One progression it goes through all these different things and teaches you how to hear them so you can figure figure out these songs you can recognize these things right the first thing it does is teaches you how to match pitch because if you want to learn a song that all this stuff that I'm showing you how I figured out is based on being able to just match the pictures that you're hearing that's it that's the first basic skill that you need to master uh before you learn anything my bat book is a theory is the theory part of this like how to build chords What notes are in each key uh how to build scales how to play scales what are arpeggios what are they mean what are the chords in every key dionic chords secondary dominant chords added note chords how they're all constructed that's the music theory portion music theory and ear training are are um you cannot separate them they're the same thing this is why I sell all my courses as a bundle 89 bucks you get all four courses and you know honestly that's that's cheaper most people sell their courses for 100 bucks 150 bucks for one course I sell all four of mine for this 89 is a deal that I I ran last week I do it like four times a year um and it's basically finances me making all the free videos of my channel there's my pitch you know I have the beginner guitar course if you've never played before and you want to learn that's in there and there's um a a uh a quick lessons Pro this more of an intermediate to Advanced guitar course so you can get all these things it's really a one siiz fits-all kind of package here um so let me talk about another song because uh the tuning thing and knowing when to use a capo is another important thing uh so when when do you know that you're needing a capo capos you can typically figure out that capos are used when you can when something is played in a key that you will break your strings and I'll give you a great example this is another boss in s okay so I hear that first note as an open string but it's not that note it's it's that note at the first fret okay I know it's an open string because it's bright and it happens through the whole thing listen b bom bom bom B okay that open string is there so I need a capo and I'm going to put it here at the first fret to make that note a Fred note and once I make that fret note a Fred note then I know I start figuring out whoops you know how happy I was when I learned what a cap was because all these songs were unfigured out without a k when you put a cap on you have to kind of Rune sometimes it makes the strings go a little sharp listen to it now little out of [Music] T cuz my cable's a little too tight sharp [Music] still I when I played these things as a kid for people they freaked out they're like how did you figure that out it's like well I had to learn what a capo was first and a lot of this stuff is just common sense you know like what what is the most logical thing it can be where and and where did the where does the uh the training come in this ear training stuff I didn't learn about ear training um until I started taking guitar lessons that that was kind of where this thing really took off when I was trying to learn um more sophisticated things lines bbop [Music] lines when I was trying to learn more bbop lines like that [Music] I um I would I'd have I started learning arpeggios and things like that and and these uh because when you're starting to learn single note lines it makes a little bit more difficult for example here's a a single note Line This is yes okay this is really tricky um I can't play it on this I got to play it on electric guitar uh this is longdistance runaround by yes that's Steve how and um Rick Wakeman playing that [Music] um um one time the first time he plays second time play he plays um I think it was uh uh [Music] I learned it that way originally because I learned it on acoustic guitar and then and I couldn't play this um because I didn't have a cutout on on my guitar right it's hard to [Music] play One More [Music] Time [Music] you hear this chord that's an ad nine but it's played on the piano you hear that that um this how do I turn that up Tom is it protols yeah so the [Music] um that's an e add it's an E major chord with the F sharp E add n now knowing what that is right like I was like that's some type of an E chord but I hear that on the top of it that add nine these are the things that that my ear training course teaches you to recognize are these ad nine chords so you can just you hear them you're like I know what that is oh I know what that is I know what that is I know what that is this is really kind of what the goal of learning how to figure out songs and developing your dictionary of recognized sounds whether it's chords whether its intervals whatever it is right and then understanding the theory behind it so how to figure out these things some songs are even more difficult because they have weird things in them I'll play you one here this song was really hard to figure out this is Pearl Jam [Music] Garden there's a lot of open strings in this and it's not in an obvious spot I can hear this and I can hear this I hear that no and I hear listen again this is really hard to figure out you hear that [Music] there's that [Music] [Applause] b there's a high E string open recognizing the T the tamber that's the other thing is developing your ear to hear the tamber of open [Music] strings brilliant God that's so good man when I figured that out that took that took a minute somebody brought it in hey I want to learn Garden my Pearl Jam okay let's put it on and I'm like oh uh uh hang on a second uh um I hear that open string hear that open string I start I start and like I hear this I hear this I hear this I hear better that's a pull off okay where you could that could be played there but not the rest of it can't be like the rest of it can't be played there so it must be and I hear that note that I know that sixth interval right um this particular major 6th interval is um you could play it here but I figur it's not there because that's too dark sounding so it must be right there and it's playing on 12 string too [Music] listen [Music] woo man nobody writes songs like that anymore um there's also songs that are contemporary songs that are not done on that are not done on guitar um my uh let's say this tune that's a tape McCrae song that I've played on here before and it's like okay what is that that's on a keyboard so you got to find the right octave right so I'm going this is F sharp then I go minor third and then is up a major second so I'm using the ear TR I recognize these intervals up another step yeah my singing is [Music] bad I just as soon as I hear I was like okay I know what that [Music] is [Music] um you got to just remember the patterns of these things right uh so these are the things that go into being able to figure out songs without YouTube tutorials give a man a fish what is it and he eats for a day teach your man to fish he eats for a lifetime is that that the saying that's uh out of the Bible uh [Music] [Music] with uh goes with the melody properly it's fascinating um and with this thing this will get demonetized this video because I played all these songs but I didn't play that much of them so we'll see doesn't matter either way I'm here to teach you guys to make myself irrelevant uh so be bundle you can get these this weekend uh for 80 89 bucks for all four of my courses um help you become a better musician and will develop your ear and your knowledge of uh knowledge of Music Theory and if you're never played the guitar before I have a beginner guitar course in there it teaches you all the basics that you need to know some of the songs that I figured out here a little bit more challenging this is where the ear training goes in to help you figure out the songs that are not taught in the beginning of guitar course so you become an immediate intermediate and advanced player that's all for now I have a great video uh new interview with Joe Satriani and Steve VI they were in town this week they came by the studio had a had a great great chat with those guys that'll be coming out this week and some other stuff uh so have a great rest of your weekend talk to you guys soon take care

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Length: 38min 13sec (2293 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 30 2024