(If it's not obvious, what I mean by "play music by ear" is to be able to both play back what I hear in my head on an instrument, as well as understand what each note is in relation to the key center, or scale, or whatever...)
I'm practicing by isolating simple melodies, right now I'm doing two (Love at First Feel by AC/DC), the power chords from the intro and the melody of the verse. I'm first trying to figure out the relative positions of each note, so for instance the first note might be above the first, the second note below the first, the third note above the first but below the second, etc. And then I'm going to either guess what the scale degrees are, or I'm going to sound out each interval to myself. The reason I'm hesitant about the second option is because I fear that if I just sound out the intervals, which I have memorized in isolation, I'm not going actually going to learn how to hear them in context. After I've done this, I'm going to play it back on my guitar and see if it's accurate.
I've had a very difficult time learning to play music by ear. I learned to recognize each interval, in isolation (although I still can't sing them all back accurately yet - maybe that would help me.), but once you add a third note into it it's like I forget everything I've learned. I can manually sound the intervals of the two notes out, but I can't figure out what they are in context of the melody. I have no idea how I'm supposed to learn this. I've watched plenty of videos and read articles but still haven't found something that seems to work for me.
Submitted April 15, 2022 at 02:46PM by ConchobarreMacNessa https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/u4dk6g/will_this_method_help_me_learn_to_play_music_by/?utm_source=ifttt