+daipayan sen Many thanks, I been tryin to find out about "guitar training free download" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Peynharlotte Acoustic Smasher - (search on google ) ? Ive heard some awesome things about it and my neighbour got excellent success with it.
30 years from now, when they are honoring the most influential youtubers with the most productive content, Justin here will be inducted into the Halls of Fame. I am sure there will be a rise of a class of guitarists who love the craft and can trace back there beginnings to this channel. Thanks man!
this should be the first video every guitarist watches when they want to learn to play melodies. i'm always recommending your channel to friends who are beginners. great stuff man.
Justin, thank you so much for teaching this note picking, I have picked this up so well lately. It's so satisfying, rewarding and fun, it's really empowering. Thank you!
The first melodie I figured out was "Ode To Joy" by Beethoven and just recently "Pretend We're Dead" by L7 also "He's A Pirate" and the Solo of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" are good songs to start with And maybe the first and second solo of "Sweet Child O Mine"
@@JustinGuitarSongs HI JUSTIN HOW ARE U?...MY NAMES ANNEMARIE...IM JUST WONDERING " sorry im pretty sure i understood what u meant by working on melodys , but what did u mean by working on INTERVALS? i watched ur videos but i couldnt find where u explained intervals?
I'm defiantly going to try this. I spend 2 minutes a day on some different finger exercises and have noticed a considerable improvement in a couple of weeks. 5 minutes ear training a day, I can imagine that the benefits are going to be awesome. Thanks Justin 😀👍
Kudos Justin. I'm a fan of yours for years. As an aside , I started working on the Barney Kessel "Improv" DVD on youtube. The first lesson is "Play what you hear. " He says the same thing as you. Start with familiar tune or nursery rhyme . The question I had is this. If you are playing a familiar melody or even your own improvised melody to a specific harmony, is the only way to know if your melody fits that harmony is if it sounds right?
Since l was around 14 years old.. l have always been able to play and transpose Xmas carols in any position on the guitar...l can hear them in my mind as clearly as if l was listening to a cd or record.. that was over forty years ago now...and since they are so well known... l find them among the best tunes to practice for ear training !!!
I want to thank you for being generous and kind enough to teach a new guitarist how to play. I also love the website. I like how it is layed out, it is very easy to follow along.
I'm going to try this. For some reason I"m capable of whistling or humming a melody or even some complex lead lines. But it's much more difficult finding those notes on the guitar.
Thank you so much for all the hard work you put in,but why do you all use distortion on the guitar surely it must be easier ear training when guitar is play clean or why not use a n acoustic??
Great Video... about the fast solos.... as I know the most who find out the notes for fast solos are slowing the record down to hear every single note.
I do kind of similar thing: I try to play along my favorite songs but using the same notes the vocalist is singing. I called it my "playing vocals" exercise.
It's great there are so many methods for ear training. Me, I use functional sounds to teach the ear, mind and fingers to play as one. Functional sounds retain the function ( 1 b2 2 b3 etc) of each member of the chromatic scale. They are easily mapped to the fretboard to complete the learning experience.
I try this all the time and always find stuff by accident. Mostly Xmas tunes for some reason but I have yet to purposely find simple solos of songs I know. I can hear them in my head but my fingers just can't ever seem to find the notes so I get frustrated and quit. I try again once frustration wears off though..lol...Guess it just takes time
Hi Justin, I've got a question about this - is it something that you learn automatically from doing the exercise or am I supposed to be thinking about it? You spoke about guessing towards the end of the video, which is at the moment what I'm doing basically. I don't know all the notes on the fretboard yet, should I finish learning those first? Should I be thinking about what specific notes they are in Happy Birthday (for example) or at least what is higher or lower than the last note? Or will I naturally develop my EAR if I fumble around until I get the right notes? I can pretty much hear when I'm doing it correctly but it is just trial and error to get there. Is that ok? Thanks mate.
What are the things on guitar you should work on frequently. I am a bit lost. There is so much to learn and I don't see much progress in my training. So, beside the eartraining. What else should a intermediate guitar player practice regularly?
Hi :) I am doing your beginner course on your website and am at stage 1, is this also part of stage 1? Because I kinda could do most of the things in stage 1 relatively good but just playing happy birthday without notes or some help is quiet hard (it sounds like trash lol ^^).
How do we exclude our knowledge of theory though?. If you know your scales it goes a long way to eliminating wrong notes or is that valid in this area of development?
another great lesson from a great inspirational master😁😁 I would love to see a live stream some time it would be a real showdown😁👍👍 hope you consider it master😊
Would you do the song We Could Fly Rhiannon Giddens melody line. I love the practice schedule ideas I’m trying to figure that out so I’m not mindlessly learnt for 8 hours. Never sure how to work through so much information. I won some lessons but It never tells me how long to work at something and it has side lessons for ear training and music theory along with the bluegrass guitar lessons. What I need is a lesson plan. Any way I really want to hear this song broken down so I can lean to play it’s melody not just chords and strumming. A tab would be useful. Even if it’s just a verse and a chorus that’d help a lot.
I feel really lost for the first time since I started following the beginner course. Am I supposed to just play random notes until I find one that sounds kind of right and then repeat that process for like 20 notes in a given melody? Sounds insanely hard and cumbersome, especially since I struggle with finding even a single note. Should I study music theory before starting ear training?
Initially it may sound like random notes and that is exactly what Justin is trying to demonstrate when he plays it in a 'trial and improvement' manner. And this is why you really need to use melodies that are so well known to you. You will know whether the next note is up or down, up a lot or just a bit, down a lot or just a bit. With 5 minutes practice on a regular basis we can all make massive progress in this quite rapidly. | close 2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide & JG Forum Mod [ justinguitarcommunity.com/index.php ]
RIP the regular ol' JustinGuitar channel? I hope not. Loved having the two distinct places to go, depending on what I wanted to do. That being said, I could see why you might not want to split your viewer base up amongst two different channels
Happy Birthday is a bit of a tricky tune -- it starts on the 5, not the 1, so once you realize that, it's in F when played in the first position in the video. That helps narrow the note choice. Nothing wrong with using a bit of brain power to help the ears!
DOES ANYBODY UNDERSTAND WHAT HE MEANT AT THE END BY WORKING FOR 5 MINUTES ON "INTERVALS?" .. I understood 5min work on melodys but not INTERVALS and cant see where its explained what intervals are?
I tried this for twinkle twinkle little star and to me, it sounded right staring on the open B string to F#.... should I make sure before I start that I'm at least starting on the note, or is it still okay to go through the exercise blind from the start even if you're just slightly off for the whole song, I just don't want to do this exercise and by mistake make bad connections in my mind. so I had; B B F# F# G# G# F# E E D# D# C# C# B the correct version after looking it up: G G D D E E D C C B B A A G thanks!
What you are trying to find is the melody from any starting note by finding the relative notes based on that start position. It does not matter what note you start in - there are 12 notes and only one of those start notes will put you in the key of the original song. But all are valid melodies just in different keys. Cheers 😊 | close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide [ www.justinguitar.com/ ] & Moderator on JustinGuitar Forum
Listen to Justin! If you end up using embellishments to get through songs you'll end up like the Christina Aguilera of the guitar... ain't nobody got time for that nonsense!
Benzo , thanks for your answer. I agree with you when you are strictly talking about performing eg when improvising bon blues. The topic here is hearing a melody and trying to copy it. In that case maybe you could say that knowing the notes and theory in general might help you : eg when a melody has a tonic on a c note and you hear a major third, the scale of the melody is probably c major and the notes are c,d,e,f,g,a,b. Or am I wrong again. I am interested in your thoughts since the melody copying exercise is completrly new for me and I find it really difficult.
forgot to add... I finally took your advice on the importance of transcribing about 6 moths ago, and the speed of my development has frightened me... As much as I love tutorials/tabs etc, it's a whole new world. I have a feeling this is going to be the same. Thanks!
Thank you Justin. And btw that's a cool shirt 😃
The Tee Shirt is available on our official store!! www.thejustinguitarstore.com/collections/tee-shirts :)
+daipayan sen Many thanks, I been tryin to find out about "guitar training free download" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Peynharlotte Acoustic Smasher - (search on google ) ? Ive heard some awesome things about it and my neighbour got excellent success with it.
30 years from now, when they are honoring the most influential youtubers with the most productive content, Justin here will be inducted into the Halls of Fame. I am sure there will be a rise of a class of guitarists who love the craft and can trace back there beginnings to this channel. Thanks man!
What he said. Totally agree. Thanks Justin!
YES!!!
Amen brothaaa
I completely disagree!! I disagree because the award will be called the Justin Sandercoe Award! Haha
You are such an insparation to the guitar world.
We appreciate your work so much justin!
Cheers Omri!
this should be the first video every guitarist watches when they want to learn to play melodies. i'm always recommending your channel to friends who are beginners. great stuff man.
Over the years, you have been such and important and GREAT SOURCE for learning. thanks for all you do we appreciate it
Make it sing Justin' Happy Birthday mate....💣
Justin, thank you so much for teaching this note picking, I have picked this up so well lately. It's so satisfying, rewarding and fun, it's really empowering. Thank you!
The first melodie I figured out was "Ode To Joy" by Beethoven
and just recently "Pretend We're Dead" by L7
also "He's A Pirate" and the Solo of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" are good songs to start with
And maybe the first and second solo of "Sweet Child O Mine"
Keep at it dude! And SCoM solos are great for it!
@@JustinGuitarSongs HI JUSTIN HOW ARE U?...MY NAMES ANNEMARIE...IM JUST WONDERING " sorry im pretty sure i understood what u meant by working on melodys , but what did u mean by working on INTERVALS? i watched ur videos but i couldnt find where u explained intervals?
Sam Daniele intervals are the gaps between notes
I've been watching your videos perhaps since the dawn of TH-cam and you haven't got old a bit!
I'm defiantly going to try this. I spend 2 minutes a day on some different finger exercises and have noticed a considerable improvement in a couple of weeks. 5 minutes ear training a day, I can imagine that the benefits are going to be awesome. Thanks Justin 😀👍
Wonderful! Keep up the good work! :)
Question: what if In my musical mind, even the most familiar and simple melodies don’t play accurately? How do I work on that?
Kudos Justin. I'm a fan of yours for years. As an aside , I started working on the Barney Kessel "Improv" DVD on youtube. The first lesson is "Play what you hear. " He says the same thing as you. Start with familiar tune or nursery rhyme . The question I had is this. If you are playing a familiar melody or even your own improvised melody to a specific harmony, is the only way to know if your melody fits that harmony is if it sounds right?
Since l was around 14 years old.. l have always been able to play and transpose Xmas carols in any position on the guitar...l can hear them in my mind as clearly as if l was listening to a cd or record.. that was over forty years ago now...and since they are so well known... l find them among the best tunes to practice for ear training !!!
Thank you Justin! I really appreciate your teachings, and you're a great guy.
I want to thank you for being generous and kind enough to teach a new guitarist how to play. I also love the website. I like how it is layed out, it is very easy to follow along.
I'm going to try this. For some reason I"m capable of whistling or humming a melody or even some complex lead lines. But it's much more difficult finding those notes on the guitar.
After Master the major scale course ... The ear training course take us to a next level . Thanks Justin !!!
You are such a humble and knowledgeable teacher.
man i literally love you.thanks for all these amazing lessons
This was very timely Justin, thanks. Just worked out While My Guitar Gently Weeps' vocal melody on guitar yesterday.
well done!
This video helped me learn my first song from ear, without it i would have never tried. Thanks a lot!!!!!
Thank you so much for all the hard work you put in,but why do you all use distortion on the guitar surely it must be easier ear training when guitar is play clean or why not use a n acoustic??
Great Video... about the fast solos.... as I know the most who find out the notes for fast solos are slowing the record down to hear every single note.
Besides the great lesson... That guitar sounds real good.
Thank you Justin for this lesson you help me alot 😃
This has helped a lot already, thanks J. you rule.
thanks for the lesson Justin !!
Youre awesome mate! Thanks for teaching my to Jam!
I do kind of similar thing: I try to play along my favorite songs but using the same notes the vocalist is singing. I called it my "playing vocals" exercise.
yep, that works too! :)
It's great there are so many methods for ear training. Me, I use functional sounds to teach the ear, mind and fingers to play as one. Functional sounds retain the function ( 1 b2 2 b3 etc) of each member of the chromatic scale. They are easily mapped to the fretboard to complete the learning experience.
I try this all the time and always find stuff by accident. Mostly Xmas tunes for some reason but I have yet to purposely find simple solos of songs I know. I can hear them in my head but my fingers just can't ever seem to find the notes so I get frustrated and quit. I try again once frustration wears off though..lol...Guess it just takes time
Top man Justin i've learnt a lot from you
Thanks Justin. Do you do this instead of transcribing or in addition to transcribing?
Thanks for the lesson, Justin. Are you aware that your ear training app needs to be updated for iOS 11? I can’t download it on my iPad.
Thank you, Justin!!
Nice one Justin!
Thank you for another amazingly useful lesson.
ur welcome! :)
Amazing lesson!
Cheers!
Hello, why do you recommend practising five days a week not seven? Thanks
Another great lesson
Hi Justin love your lessons mate, any chance of some Gomez lessons? The only tab out there is inaccurate
Hey Justin. Love the vids. Can you do All of My days by Alexis Murdock. Been having trouble with the finger patterns and your vids help me immensely.
prayer in c is a good exercise
Hi Justin, I've got a question about this - is it something that you learn automatically from doing the exercise or am I supposed to be thinking about it? You spoke about guessing towards the end of the video, which is at the moment what I'm doing basically. I don't know all the notes on the fretboard yet, should I finish learning those first? Should I be thinking about what specific notes they are in Happy Birthday (for example) or at least what is higher or lower than the last note? Or will I naturally develop my EAR if I fumble around until I get the right notes? I can pretty much hear when I'm doing it correctly but it is just trial and error to get there. Is that ok? Thanks mate.
Hi, Justin I was following ur exercisesand it was going well, but I find this ear training really hard, am I tone deff?
What are the things on guitar you should work on frequently. I am a bit lost. There is so much to learn and I don't see much progress in my training.
So, beside the eartraining. What else should a intermediate guitar player practice regularly?
Love you just
:)
:) :)
Hi :) I am doing your beginner course on your website and am at stage 1, is this also part of stage 1? Because I kinda could do most of the things in stage 1 relatively good but just playing happy birthday without notes or some help is quiet hard (it sounds like trash lol ^^).
How do we exclude our knowledge of theory though?. If you know your scales it goes a long way to eliminating wrong notes or is that valid in this area of development?
can u please do back in black solo
hey justin, you helped me and i'm a bassist lol
another great lesson from a great inspirational master😁😁 I would love to see a live stream some time it would be a real showdown😁👍👍 hope you consider it master😊
Superb
Would you do the song We Could Fly Rhiannon Giddens melody line. I love the practice schedule ideas I’m trying to figure that out so I’m not mindlessly learnt for 8 hours. Never sure how to work through so much information. I won some lessons but It never tells me how long to work at something and it has side lessons for ear training and music theory along with the bluegrass guitar lessons. What I need is a lesson plan. Any way I really want to hear this song broken down so I can lean to play it’s melody not just chords and strumming. A tab would be useful. Even if it’s just a verse and a chorus that’d help a lot.
I feel really lost for the first time since I started following the beginner course. Am I supposed to just play random notes until I find one that sounds kind of right and then repeat that process for like 20 notes in a given melody? Sounds insanely hard and cumbersome, especially since I struggle with finding even a single note. Should I study music theory before starting ear training?
Initially it may sound like random notes and that is exactly what Justin is trying to demonstrate when he plays it in a 'trial and improvement' manner. And this is why you really need to use melodies that are so well known to you. You will know whether the next note is up or down, up a lot or just a bit, down a lot or just a bit. With 5 minutes practice on a regular basis we can all make massive progress in this quite rapidly.
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Uff that guitar is gorgeous
Can you do a tutorial on the song Shake Your Foundations by AC/DC. Very cool song to learn and listen to! Thanks!
Where can I get that t-shirt?😍
Anyone know where I can find this is on the website ... the link is old Tnx
Please do a guitar tutorial of Motorheads "Orgasmatron"
when your trying to learn something and he throws a perfect example at you and then you understand haha
Novel idea! I gonna try this.
I love your lessons man, but I found this one quite difficult, i cant really see what frets you are using...
I love you
RIP the regular ol' JustinGuitar channel? I hope not. Loved having the two distinct places to go, depending on what I wanted to do. That being said, I could see why you might not want to split your viewer base up amongst two different channels
What setting on ur amp r u using
I do it and its sounds right for me but then I watch other people TH-cam videos playing the same songs way different than me
Happy Birthday is a bit of a tricky tune -- it starts on the 5, not the 1, so once you realize that, it's in F when played in the first position in the video. That helps narrow the note choice. Nothing wrong with using a bit of brain power to help the ears!
Where is the list of songs (mentioned at 6:49) posted?
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What I don’t get is how to get chords from notes. Can anyone give me some advice?
hang on? sorry..
im pretty sure i understasnd what u mean by 5 minutes working on melodys///
but whatr do u mean working on INTERVALS?
DOES ANYBODY UNDERSTAND WHAT HE MEANT AT THE END BY WORKING FOR 5 MINUTES ON "INTERVALS?" ..
I understood 5min work on melodys but not INTERVALS and cant see where its explained what intervals are?
What are the other songs
Im only at 4.50
And i've tried a couple of songs and im starting to getting it !
Position is the key (lame pun ikr)
I found it really hard, what did u do? Can u help me?
awesome lesson!
How to riyaz with acoustic guitar
I tried this for twinkle twinkle little star and to me, it sounded right staring on the open B string to F#.... should I make sure before I start that I'm at least starting on the note, or is it still okay to go through the exercise blind from the start even if you're just slightly off for the whole song, I just don't want to do this exercise and by mistake make bad connections in my mind.
so I had;
B B F# F# G# G# F#
E E D# D# C# C# B
the correct version after looking it up:
G G D D E E D
C C B B A A G
thanks!
What you are trying to find is the melody from any starting note by finding the relative notes based on that start position. It does not matter what note you start in - there are 12 notes and only one of those start notes will put you in the key of the original song. But all are valid melodies just in different keys.
Cheers 😊
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Before the beginning by John Frusciante
Altered guitar tunings and capos make it impossible for me to ever truly be able to play guitar by ear.
Listen to Justin! If you end up using embellishments to get through songs you'll end up like the Christina Aguilera of the guitar... ain't nobody got time for that nonsense!
Amen to that
Should you try to think in notes or just try to play the melody without knowing the note names you are playing?
Benzo , thanks for your answer. I agree with you when you are strictly talking about performing eg when improvising bon blues.
The topic here is hearing a melody and trying to copy it. In that case maybe you could say that knowing the notes and theory in general might help you : eg when a melody has a tonic on a c note and you hear a major third, the scale of the melody is probably c major and the notes are c,d,e,f,g,a,b.
Or am I wrong again. I am interested in your thoughts since the melody copying exercise is completrly new for me and I find it really difficult.
I've heard comments is a good way to promote a video.
Me who never thought of learning happy birthday song
Me on acoustic
What tattoo is that on your left forearm?
Despacito please?????
Very sexy guitar!
She is :)
+JustinGuitar Songs play that guitar
You look like captain america
Dont cheat. Try to be straight as u can.
Very sad news Tom Petty died
amazing lesson - as always.
forgot to add... I finally took your advice on the importance of transcribing about 6 moths ago, and the speed of my development has frightened me... As much as I love tutorials/tabs etc, it's a whole new world. I have a feeling this is going to be the same. Thanks!
hopefully! :) good luck!
Great lesson!