So first of all I'm not a beginner, I can play literally almost anything on the bass guitar besides like incredibly high end technical stuff (so I'm still pretty technical). I've toured, I've recorded with cool people, I've played on records that have over hundreds of thousands of plays.
Here's the deal: I'm learning keys now I really love it I just am enjoying it so much more, and I've played sparingly throughout my life so I can do some fun stuff like on a clav and stuff. When the music is playing I can figure it out and get somethin goin even if its just comping.
But I've been trying some ear training for just major minor and dom7 and I'm wrong like almost always and when I'm right it's luck.
I cannot tell the difference between these chords for the life of me. For instance, when I grew up everyone always said "minor sounds dark and sad, major is bright and happy", I don't agree at all. I do not think the C major triad sounds happy on a piano (when played a standard triad in first position). Conversely, I DO think the G major triad sounds happy. So this idea thats always been presented to me has always sort of not made sense because alot of the chords make me feel like several different happy and sad ways. Especially when you start getting into inversions with extensions and such. It's really hard for me to describe how chords make me feel, but somehow any time i go off of that "okay this feels happy to me." it will straight up be a minor chord.
Has anyone else experienced this and gotten past this hump? Should I just keep repeating it everyday and trying to get it?
So another thing to note here, If you put any single song on that you might hear on the radio or a funky tune, I can immediately find the key and start playing to it, in time, sounding good. So like I'm at this weird place where its like, when the music is playing, i get it and i feel it, and play along fine. I know my modes, I know why which mode is the way it is. I know the fretboard inside and out. I can play, but on god I just never learned harmony somehow. It's like I just feel harmony but intellectually im completely lost. I don't know how to put it. And I know this sounds crazy as a bass player saying I don't know harmony.
But for the life of me I can't tell the difference between chords.
Submitted September 09, 2024 at 12:41PM by Portyo12345 https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/1fcshzb/im_a_solid_bass_player_have_played_professionally/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Monday, September 9, 2024