Figuring out chords; I use Audacity a lot; just load the audio in there, select the chord I'm having trouble with, and hit loop-play selection. Then just match note for note
5 Steps to learning any song by ear 1) Listen to small section of song 2) Play random notes on fretboard while listening to song 3) Move fingers around until they sound the same 4) Repeat steps 1-3 until bored 5) Google " guitar tab"
Great you've distracted Nik long enough that I can go and cover the new Triviu- OH, HE'S ALREADY DONE IT!!!! It's good to see that we all transcribe in the same way - GUESSING ALL OVER THE NECK AND GETTING ANGRY!
9:13 "I'll try and pick out the first note of each sequence". Doing this has always helped me learn hard parts by ear. Glad to see someone sharing their techniques in such a helpful way. Keep up the shred Bradley!
Although I am impressed by your hearing, composing and playing skills, I find some relief in the fact that even Sweepman and the Shredmaster are struggling with stuff too. :D
This was a pretty inspiring watch. As someone who's been playing for a few years but only recently started ear training, I've been taking close to an hour to figure out 10 to 20 seconds solos.
I've played on and off for about 10 years and have the foundations of music theory but never trained my ear. I started ear training a few months ago and try to learn songs that are already tabbed and established as a reference for my accuracy. I'm learning how difficult some parts can be to learn by ear. Thanks for play through here showing the struggle ♥️🤘
True But I like to try and tackle them on my own It forces you to kinda study what they do and learn from it And it also serves as a good challenge to try and train your ear to hear all sorts of technical chord and rhythms
This is my favorite video you've done. Both entertaining and insightful. My only criticism is I wish it had a proper ending. Like a comparison of results amd how close you each got to the original piece. Keep up the good work
That moment when you realise Bradley's cartoon self is holding a bass and not a guitar. *_B r u h m o m e n t_* Good job, boys. Both tracks were badass. Nik's chromatic tapping doe.
Both wrote great riffs and both managed to figure them out and learn within half an hour. Bloody impressive! I had to figure out parts of a solo that weren’t accurately tabbed today, and my god what a task it is. Slowing everything down, trying to pick out what the hell the guy is doing with all the bends, tapping, slides, etc. This is a full-time job! The world is a much easier place nowadays when most songs are on UG and many of them 100% accurate.
This was really fun :D My bass player and I do this often, every time he composes a new song instead of sending me the tabs he sends me an mp3 and I have to figure out what he plays. Damn bass player!!! :D :D
@sREUDIAN fLIP Yeah, I have no problem playing by ear, I've been playing guitar for over 25 years and I never took a lesson, but still the tabs would speed up the process of learning a new song. :D
Oof spicy tracks from both of ya, and god level ear training on display. Btw I actually typed another comment before which doesn't seem to have been posted cause my internet is kinda slow, but if it did post for the love of god Brad delete it. It's cringe.
It's so interesting how patterns we are strong in can produce such different "styles" over a finite set of notes. Then to try to play someone else's patterns is surprisingly difficult. even when they got the hang of them, the alteration of just two notes in said learned pattern is enough to throw your grasp on it. To watch yous play a whole section just fine just to mess it up on the repeat of it if there was a 1 or 2 note difference at the end of an otherwise identical section is fascinating.
I remember the good old days, 1994, when me and my band mates transcribe megadeth songs using only their ears, a casette tape and player and a whole lot of rewind
The winner is clearly both of them as they had gained valuable ear training. IMO, it's a prestigious thing to be able to figure out parts accurately and transcribe them but at the end of the day, there's not much rewards to it as player. On the other hand, being able to figure out maybe like 70% of the parts and understand the main idea and being able to absorb it into your playing is much more rewarding. That's how most of the guitar heroes from pre-internet did it, by failing to play like the guitar heroes before them.
I cover a solo or song as much as I need, once I figured out how those solos are created by the artist, I'm done, I create my own riff or solo inspired by the previous solo I learned, twist it a bit and it become my style. But many people just love to cover, all they do is cover and don't have interest to make their own composition. And I'm okay with them.
That's why music theory is important my friends... instead of spending half an hour trying to figure out a chord going fret my fret and note by note all you have to do is find the key, the scales used and find the chord progression through the scales. Can I do it? Probably not complex stuff, but a guy like Kiko Loureiro or Broderick would learn both songs in less than 5 minutes.
How about doing a similar challenge but write each other a song, send the song to each other with tabs! But you have to listen to the song for the first time and play at the same time like sight reading? 🤔🤷♂️🎸
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That damn chord got me. love how the video turned out dude, thanks for having me!
Great video, nice to see bts of how you figure out songs.
Figuring out chords; I use Audacity a lot; just load the audio in there, select the chord I'm having trouble with, and hit loop-play selection. Then just match note for note
Squiggle poo
Nik, your work is amazing. You have a sub from me here and on Spotify. Thanks man.
Thanks Nik! Just subbed to you.
5 Steps to learning any song by ear
1) Listen to small section of song
2) Play random notes on fretboard while listening to song
3) Move fingers around until they sound the same
4) Repeat steps 1-3 until bored
5) Google " guitar tab"
that's so accurate
😅😅😅😅
What if it's a super unknown song :'( fml
@@luvrix In that case you have to not get bored lol
@@luvrix Thats me learning ghost runner on third tabs
OMG a crossover between SWEEPMAN and my Nikka 🤘🤘🤘
David Nwokoye I see what you did there.
Nikka
My Nikka \m/
Wuss gud my nikka
I am not alowed to say that
Great you've distracted Nik long enough that I can go and cover the new Triviu- OH, HE'S ALREADY DONE IT!!!!
It's good to see that we all transcribe in the same way - GUESSING ALL OVER THE NECK AND GETTING ANGRY!
that's the true way of transcribing! hahaha
Please challenge Rudy Ayoub next!
He's style is quite unique, too!
Of course, in the middle of practice he'll 0-3-5-6
Rudy will learn the song while staring at the camera for the whole 30 minutes. Without blinking
@@nicolasortiz4422 perfection
@@mrgreenfr6216 th-cam.com/video/0Qd7cT3gyrI/w-d-xo.html
"smoke on the water intensifies"
"Rare footage of Sweepman tapping leaked."
And, everytime Nik went "Haa?!", I just cracked up laughing.
Love ya both so much. ❤️
9:13 "I'll try and pick out the first note of each sequence". Doing this has always helped me learn hard parts by ear. Glad to see someone sharing their techniques in such a helpful way. Keep up the shred Bradley!
can you explain pls? :)
This 22 minutes video feels intense. Somehow my heart was pounding a bit when the time was almost up. Both of you are exceptional guitarist
Although I am impressed by your hearing, composing and playing skills, I find some relief in the fact that even Sweepman and the Shredmaster are struggling with stuff too. :D
Nik actually livestreams everytime he is learning a song. It's quite fun to watch.
@@nazman465 where is that?
This was a pretty inspiring watch. As someone who's been playing for a few years but only recently started ear training, I've been taking close to an hour to figure out 10 to 20 seconds solos.
This was a great idea!!! Nik is a beast💪
Petition to make this a series?
YES
13:28 LMAO! That was the most genuine "WTF!?" I've heard in a long time.
I've played on and off for about 10 years and have the foundations of music theory but never trained my ear. I started ear training a few months ago and try to learn songs that are already tabbed and established as a reference for my accuracy. I'm learning how difficult some parts can be to learn by ear. Thanks for play through here showing the struggle ♥️🤘
I wish you gave each other a feedback at the end to see what is correct and what isnt. Great video guys.
Before the video starts: Bradley's probably gonna write some Michael Angelo Batio-ass sweep arpeggio-monster that Nik isn't able to play
edit: oh...
You'd be surprised by nik's shredding capabilities
@@madhatter797 Yeah Nik is pretty damn fast when he wants to be
Damn I love Bradley's riff...full song PLEASE!!!
Why learning Polyphia songs by ear is a nightmare
The dam chords
But then again, you don't need to, as Tim is putting up tutorial for most of what he does. And they sell tabs.
True
But I like to try and tackle them on my own
It forces you to kinda study what they do and learn from it
And it also serves as a good challenge to try and train your ear to hear all sorts of technical chord and rhythms
I really love that lick 6:53 lmao
Fits perfectly with Bradley's wtf reaction
I like how it transitions to a Very hyped voice to a very chill voice.
Should of included videos of y'all playing the originals at the end. See how close you really got
Yes please, would be great! I feel invested in this episode and want resolution! :) Maybe on Nik's channel upcoming?
You guys taught me a lot about myself with this video. How I need to just put in the time and figure it out. Thanks.
This is my favorite video you've done. Both entertaining and insightful. My only criticism is I wish it had a proper ending. Like a comparison of results amd how close you each got to the original piece. Keep up the good work
That moment when you realise Bradley's cartoon self is holding a bass and not a guitar.
*_B r u h m o m e n t_*
Good job, boys. Both tracks were badass. Nik's chromatic tapping doe.
Yeah that's one of the biggest bruh things bout this channel but it's hard drawing guitars in cartoons innit
Yes ill take the credit for the collab since i told nik to work with you, thank you
Both wrote great riffs and both managed to figure them out and learn within half an hour. Bloody impressive! I had to figure out parts of a solo that weren’t accurately tabbed today, and my god what a task it is. Slowing everything down, trying to pick out what the hell the guy is doing with all the bends, tapping, slides, etc. This is a full-time job!
The world is a much easier place nowadays when most songs are on UG and many of them 100% accurate.
upset you didnt have a waterbottle on your desk...
Nik is a hydrohomie
This was really fun :D
My bass player and I do this often, every time he composes a new song instead of sending me the tabs he sends me an mp3 and I have to figure out what he plays. Damn bass player!!! :D :D
@sREUDIAN fLIP Yeah, I have no problem playing by ear, I've been playing guitar for over 25 years and I never took a lesson, but still the tabs would speed up the process of learning a new song. :D
Bradley's part has a lot of early Veil of Maya vibes✌🏼🤘🏼🔥
His clip is basically Its Not Safe To Swim Today
Great crossover. 2 of my fav channels. Keep it up man. I loved the 20 sweeps for quarantine video. This one is pretty good too.
This was an awesome idea! Very original and fun to watch! You’re both brilliant 🤘🏻
It's very cool Bradley Hall ! It would be great to see more these type of videos with other youtubers as well.
Oof spicy tracks from both of ya, and god level ear training on display.
Btw I actually typed another comment before which doesn't seem to have been posted cause my internet is kinda slow, but if it did post for the love of god Brad delete it. It's cringe.
It's so interesting how patterns we are strong in can produce such different "styles" over a finite set of notes. Then to try to play someone else's patterns is surprisingly difficult. even when they got the hang of them, the alteration of just two notes in said learned pattern is enough to throw your grasp on it. To watch yous play a whole section just fine just to mess it up on the repeat of it if there was a 1 or 2 note difference at the end of an otherwise identical section is fascinating.
I loved this. Huge fan of both channels. You guys must are ridiculous quick at ear training things out.
I'd love to see the same challenge on a complicated solo.
Nice!!! get Rudy!
Love this, you guys should do something like this more often. Or maybe pick a song at random and learn it by ear on camera? Idk, cheers.
This friendship stars and finish with this 45 seconds clip jajaja
Btw, both were awesome. Love you, guys!
Yours is such a periphery riff I love it
Good crossover sweepman!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘
*18:44** literally me everytime*
top job from both of you....us mere mortals would be still working this shit out many many moons later!
You guys are beast and so inspiring guitarists.
This vídeo was fun and incredible. Both of you were excellent
You guys both win because you both rock hard af
I remember the good old days, 1994, when me and my band mates transcribe megadeth songs using only their ears, a casette tape and player and a whole lot of rewind
As comfortable as musicians as you guys appear to be it was nice to watch y’all sweat and smash this shit ! 🤌
Very entertaining. more of these. And tabs I need to learn both. My ear holes aren't as learnid.
Brad is winner here. Played it perfectly.
I love the style of the riff you sent Nik. Do you write your own stuff like that and if so, where can I listen to it?
Bradley Hall so random 😂 I loved every second
This is the coolest guitar TH-cam content I've ever seen! MORE!!!
Great process, great video. Kudos to both of you for those tasty riffs !
Please make this into a full-fledged series!!!!
You both are so good
You guys make it look so easy damnit ;_;
How did I miss this crossover??? Here for it.
You guys should do more of these!
BRUTAL EXERCISE! NICE!
You guys are going to play the songs yourselves in another video, right?? (Please do)
Awesome job, guys!
This was fun to watch ... TY , Guys !!!
Great video. You have a new sub Bradley, saw this after Nik posted on his Instagram story about this video. Great stuff 😀🎸🎶🤘🔥🔥
Cheers to VLC player 😁. Called it old school but I always use them to do that too
The winner is clearly both of them as they had gained valuable ear training.
IMO, it's a prestigious thing to be able to figure out parts accurately and transcribe them but at the end of the day, there's not much rewards to it as player.
On the other hand, being able to figure out maybe like 70% of the parts and understand the main idea and being able to absorb it into your playing is much more rewarding. That's how most of the guitar heroes from pre-internet did it, by failing to play like the guitar heroes before them.
I cover a solo or song as much as I need, once I figured out how those solos are created by the artist, I'm done, I create my own riff or solo inspired by the previous solo I learned, twist it a bit and it become my style.
But many people just love to cover, all they do is cover and don't have interest to make their own composition.
And I'm okay with them.
Hey bradley or nik, could you upload those song, so we can learn it please!!??😆
Edit: god, i forgot that i didn't have a seven strings
Love those chords in yours
13:53 me trying to play Happy Birthday
Great vid, great collab!
I need to train my ears more often. I randomly pick up riffs I haven't heard in a while.
6:23 landmines inbound
Bradley: upload a new video
Automatically me: LIKE LIKE LIKE LIKEEEEEEE
awesome NIk and Bradley in one video!
So... a band with both playing the guitar. When?
I love that "huh" noises Nick makes :D
Great video buddy ❤️
Do more of that in the future
Bradleys clip sounds like Its Not Safe To Swim Today
Very cool. I hope you can show how you play Kiko Loureiro’s Overflow
F****** amazing dude
Wow, how do you never write anything down, that's super impressive.
Top 5 collabs of all time
i learned your guys riffs from the beginin part by ear pretty quick both were easy but i guess the timer adds extreme pressure Lol
We won. Brad and Nick you didn't.
This should be a series :))
Nice. It’ll be more interesting if Jared and Stevie T was on this video, I guess. Make part 2 of this with them
4:20 Nik started playing Year Long Disaster by Leda Atomica lol
my favorites guitar yts !! 😍😍😍
this is the work of gods~
That's why music theory is important my friends... instead of spending half an hour trying to figure out a chord going fret my fret and note by note all you have to do is find the key, the scales used and find the chord progression through the scales. Can I do it? Probably not complex stuff, but a guy like Kiko Loureiro or Broderick would learn both songs in less than 5 minutes.
It'd be cool to see you do the solo from the ending credits of Gundam thunderbolt: December sky. Just because.
yes both of my guitar heroes fusion
I love the breakdown of the song that you made. dududog dududog dududog dududog dududog dududog
Bradley how do you even come up with those wack chords...
@@BradleyHallGuitar at least it not D7sus2/F#
Yeah but like how do you come up with that? It sounds so funky in a good way
@@BradleyHallGuitar So... it's a Bm(add11).
@@BradleyHallGuitar Oh hey, Bradley replied to me.
@@samueljacobson470 Duh......its easy
Play Glassgow Kiss on just that mini Marshall up there. I'm curious.
the cool part is it shows where other guitar players would have quit and say f it
How about doing a similar challenge but write each other a song, send the song to each other with tabs! But you have to listen to the song for the first time and play at the same time like sight reading? 🤔🤷♂️🎸
Haven't finished watching it yet, I'm rooting for bradley I like Nik alright but bradley is my man
I wanna see u with stevie T with this series brad ..please make it happen
I think you should do it with thedooo
*Instantly covers it with just knowing the title and not even hearing it *
This was badass!!!!