How to Figure out a Melody on Guitar (For BEGINNERS!)
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Here's an easy beginner's method to figure out any melody you hear and play it on guitar! There are many methods do to this, but this trial-and-error one is specifically suited if you are new to the process and will get you jump started on your musicianship journey.
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This was super helpful, thanks!
You're most welcome!
I am so grateful for this...thank you so much for your kindness to teach us in such an amazing way!!...love your videos ❤
You are so welcome! I hope to share more of my knowledge with you
In this world of advertising and marketing, the internet is filled with many guitar courses. Most of them are interested in fishing the beginners and making them tab dependent or just making copy their motion. A beginner will remain a beginner for ever. Nothing out there teaches or evokes the basic understanding of music and creativity of musicianship. Nothing teaches us to play something completely new just out of mind intuitively.
I read your website completely, came to know that you are not only heavily skilled in technical aspects of guitar but also a music theory guru too. A man who have expanded his musical horizon through blending various musical cultures.
Luckily ! you mentioned that you are creating a beginner guitar course. You have mentioned that "I strongly believe in training my students to become musicians, not just guitarists. With that in mind I have designed my syllabus to cover technique, theory, and musicianship to provide you with the most holistic education possible". In your private lesson webpage.
I know the difficulty of passing knowledge virtually in the absence of physical presence.
Bro will your course also help us become tab independent and not robots who are just copying motions? and teach us technique, theory and musicianship?unlike other courses on the internet.
You are one of the few who have a true passion for teaching and sharing your knowledge. I am ready to pay you any amount for your priceless teaching efforts . And if there is beginner course, will there be follow up courses in the future? And will you teach us percussive fingerstyle guitar too?
I have a real fire to learn guitar, but circumstances kept on pulling my leg. I have enrolled in many online courses , and came out of everything cause nothing taught me how to connect the instrument to theory and to ear development . There was many gaps in their methodology. Don't want to elaborate them , the experience of the courses were futile.
Due to extensive marketing campaigns and advertisements, they created hope and gave me nothing other than few exercises and songs play. Ironically, they have humongous subscribers and followers. But actual talent and gem like you is hidden. Thank you lord for showing me this legend!!!
Sorry for such a long post. All were the result of the pain I had. My conscience kept on bothering me, ask him... ask him precious!( Gollum's voice). So the result was this, can't focus on my studies. One side my mind continuously reinforced the thought that I won't get good teacher to learn my instrument, just sell your guitar and on other side it remained me that there is Neil bro as a prime hope to hold on. Those were above questions I wished to ask you bro, to keep my weight down my heart and to focus better on me studies with full hope and confidence.
Currently I am in midst of my exam preparation. My exams were postponed to September 13 due to corona crisis. No guitar till then. Hope, your course will be ready by then (even if it not ready, no problem ! waiting for a masterpiece won't hurt at all). I am happy to pay any amount for your course. By your blessing , hope I would kick start my musical journey! God bless you bro!
Thanks in advance for reading and replying.
Hey there, thank you for your thoughtful and detailed post. I am really heartened to hear that you resonate so much with my teaching philosophy and values as a musician! I'm also excited to hear that you've such a fire to learn guitar, and to learn it in a meaningful way that will make you a skilled and confident musician.
I'm sorry to hear of your bad experiences with other courses to far, but I hope you won't give up on playing guitar. Focus on exam preparations but keep that fire going. Playing guitar and music is one of the best things that I've committed myself to in this lifetime :)
To answer your question on my course, yes I don't believe in relying on tabs and I strive to help aspiring guitarists to have a deep understanding of technique, musicianship and theory, and to be able to apply these concepts meaningfully. However that is not an easy feat! As with most things, majority of the hard work has to come from the student, because nomatter how good the teacher, a student who doesn't put in the work won't progress well.
It sounds like you're a hardworking person and I look forward to sharing more of my knowledge with you. Working on the course now, can't give you an exact date but hopefully in a few months time :)
@@neilchanmusic Thank you so much. Sure bro, I am ready sweat blood for learning.
I want the book that ur using...
I can figure it out when hearing in the video but it feels terrible when i do it myself🤣🤣
Hey Naufal, don't be disheartened! Try it out on the simplest of melodies first. Nursery rhymes are a great place to start. You'd be surprised, even seemingly basic songs like 'Happy Birthday' have pretty complex melodies.
I just found this guy. I guess I missed the other lesson that teaches why he picks the "5-2" position to find the melody with, and how he knew it was the D Major scale.
I also am watching this "SOLFEGE" idea on other videos, which sounds like a great concept. But why the acronym "SOLFEGE"? I don't see where that comes from. I see the acronym contains 7 letters which I assume represents the 7 notes of the major scale, but I still don't understand.
Hi, solfege is not an acronym. It is a term for the system of attaching sung syllables to the musical scale. It makes the scale sound more musical and melodic, rather than singing '1, 2, 3, 4 etc'. You can download my solfege-musicianship guide for free for more information. You should find the link in the description.
@@neilchanmusic Thank you so much for your answer! I know you are busy.
So "solfege" is just a name for the concept. I wonder how they came up with such a name. But now I understand better.
Actually, I've been singing '1, 2, 3, 4 etc' instead of 'do re mi' as I want to know that a fourth or a third or whatever sounds a certain way. Being basically a beginner at this, singing the numbers may be a bad way to do it. I was able to quickly identify where the third, sixth, or whatever was on the guitar, using the C scale. However, being able to sing a fourth, third or whatever before I play it on the guitar is much, much harder for me to do!
Again, thank you kindly for answering me!
Thanks alot....How long will it take to practice to become very good at instantly transcribing Melody into solfege.