4 Tips for Learning New Songs Fast
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- In this video Bradford talks through four tips that he uses to learn and internalize new songs quickly.
Links mentioned in this video:
Same God electric guitar play through (this is the song Bradford learned within a few hours): • Same God - Elevation W...
Bradford's 5 tips for electric guitar: • 5 tips to maximize you...
5 Alternate chord voicings: • 5 Alternate Chord Voic...
Chord number system (Nashville Number system): • The Chord Number Syste...
Table of contents:
00:00 - Welcome
00:11 - Story time (what inspired this video)
01:03 - Bradford's best practices - Intro
01:50 - Tip 1: Charts - internalize the chords of the song
03:45 - Tip 2: Music Theory - Nashville Numbers
05:12 - Tip 3 - Internalize the melody
06:08 - Ear training - Work on your 'ear'
07:09 - Tip 4 - Learn/Play shapes and patterns - not just parts
10:43 - Conclusion
11:46 - Shenanigans and malarky
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This is super helpful! Much more efficient than my current method of “Play the song over and over until you know it”
This was great stuff! The only logical next step is for you to do an example and learn a song during a video! It doesn't have to be a song you don't know already, but it'll show what the process is like in practice.
Agree
Great content. I remember the first time we switched to no music sheets on stage. Scared me to death. Now using a combination of videos, tabs, and ear I can learn a new song in a couple hours. I also break the song up into parts (ie verse, chorus etc..). I learn each part in the original key, transpose it to whatever key our team is using, and then play through the entire song a few times. The night before I play through the entire setlist a few times as a refresher, full board, click, any tracks we are including just like I would be playing live with our full band.
One thing that helps me is just listening to the song over and over again. It imprints in my head and then flows into my playing. I can also begin to learn the song using time that I can’t spend formally practicing, like on my commute to work, while I’m doing things around the house, or sometimes when I’m stuck in front of the computer at work. It pays dividends when I can actually sit down to play/learn the parts it, I already know the song well.
Listen to the song a minimum of 5 times through before ever touching the guitar. Riding in the car with a "new" song and learning it vocally and musically without touching an instrument really helps when you sit down to find parts and progressions. Helps me a lot.
The Nashville Number System was the single most helpful item I learned. It helped me gain a much deeper understanding of WHAT I was playing and WHY it fit or was played in that section of the song.
I did use the WT chart to learn it quickly. :). Thanks!
then you should learn that this was around long before nashville musicians, used in both classical music and jazz.
I feel like this was a response to the heated discussion like a week ago, that was simultaneously happening in several of the FB groups, about “not having time to learn songs because we’re only volunteers”.
It was not. I feel like those happen every week anyways 😅
Here is my process. 1) Put the songs on a Spotify playlist and listen to all week 2) I request the Prime tracks that will be used for the set 3) I pull up the music on Planning Center and run through the set a couple times in the original key using Spotify. This helps me identify which songs I need to spend more time on 4) I run through the songs a couple times each day, maybe 30-45 min. Usually on about day three I just use the Prime tracks that will be in our ears on stage. Somewhere along the way I start trying to play the songs without the sheet music. 5) by Saturday if I don’t know the songs I’ll spend however much time is needed until everything is memorized. I try to look for patterns on how the music is laid out and identify where those patterns repeat.
Not gonna lie, given my schedule, enrolling on UA-cam University watching a somebody (or 2-3 somebodies) play through a song helps expedite my ability to learn a part. From there though, I might make subtle, ergonomic, or more comfortable improvements and adjustments. Either that or steal...I mean combine ideas from the various UA-cam players. I suppose seeing a part visually helps my ear quite a bit more, so I'm not really ever looking for a tab.
Thanks for the tips and your thoughts on this. Since I usually am given songs from CCLI or wherever through Planning Center, I first take the chord sheet and transpose it to Nashville numbers. From there, I find the key of the original recording and play along with it using the numbers chart. I then practice it in the key that we are going to play it in. Sometimes I realize that I have to do something different for the shapes used in the original recording versus the key we're doing it in. After going through this process and playing through the song numerous times, I usually have a feel for the song and more confidence to play it. But it is a time commitment. For me, I'll spend hours to prepare for a set (unless it's all songs that I'm familiar with and that speeds everything along). If anyone has a better process, I'm open to trying different things!!
Hello from Utah! Thanks Bradford for your insights. That was lot to unpack in under 11 minutes!! Thanks WT for all the hard work with patches and advice.
My sister has a degree in music and can only play by sheet music. I on the other hand, only play by ear. She is very jealous of my ear. People hate playing scales, but if you can play and sing the do-ra-me-fa-so-la-ti-do scale, it helps you find all the chords of a song just by listening for a match tonally. This is ear training. Also understanding how to find the root note of a song and then knowing the 1-4-5 of that key. Knowing the Nashville number system and memorizing the patterns (on a fret board). And realize bridges are places in a song that could be anything at all and probably will not be anything like the rest of the song, usually having a repeating pattern.( silence is a repeating pattern). If you are a guitarist, take some time to watch a few videos on music theory as it relates to a piano keyboard. My worship team is made up of old rock & roll musicians. Getting everyone to understand the intricacies of how a song is constructed and is not played wide open like Johnny B Goode is challenging. It took me 30 years to learn when not to play. That less is more and songs that are "built" are much more powerful and entertaining than everyone just grinding it out from start to finish. Egos can and do get in the way of how far the TEAM can develop. Don't be afraid of making a mistake. Have fun with what you are doing, your emotion on stage transmits to the audience. And the biggest tip is REPETITION!
Thank you for this. Most helpful video you guys have put out
I play everything starting with an A, D, or F chord shape in mind. It helps
Ty very much. Appreciate this video
I’ve watching your tutorials for couple of years and it helped me alot
Thank you Bradford 🙂
Super helpful! Had to learn a lot of this by myself but many of these things I’ve learned from previous WT videos! Thank you for that
A simple hack if you play electric guitar, try learning the acoustic part first to get the sonic "foundation " of the song down THEN stack lead Electric over top. It depends on the song obviously, but If you play multiple instruments learn the song on the instrument you are best at first, Piano or Bass , Sing it, etc. Then learn the lead/ vocal parts after. You will know two parts in the end and one will help you learn the other. Plus focusing on different parts of the song helps prevent burnout on practicing one thing for too long. It lets your brain absorb the information while doing something else. It seems like more work at first but you get further faster in the long run especially if you play multiple instruments. Doing this adds dimension depth and context to what you are learning and it really helps in a band setting when playing live. If this helps you share with someone else.
Awesome! I actually used this method in my church a long time ago, and it’s the best way to learn a new song! Thanks for the video!
Great video! I find these more general concept subjects to be very helpful!!
One thing I do when learning a song is to practice it in multiple keys. Transposing the parts help me to internalize the song and to not 'just play the right notes' as you mentioned. Plus it helps if you do end up playing the song on a different key on Sunday.
Great advice! I’ve done the song along method of learning songs for YEARS! Excellent content!! I also speak the lyrics to the proper cadence. Trying to ensure I get the lyrics in the correct order and with the correct syncopation. Nothing bugs me more than people singing out of sync.
Good thoughts to digest. Have y’all thought about doing anything specifically about ear training. This often seems like the largest gate to really being able to be a contributing and successful member of a worship team but it’s not often taught in a helpful way. I know Bradford mentioned just using websites and apps; however, this could be a good video or series. I know I’ve spent the last several months just struggling along in apps and don’t really have much to show, especially considering how much time and effort I’ve put into it.
I always here listening to you guys however sometimes can't complete to see the whole clip.
Blessing day.!💥
One of the best Worship Tutorial videos I’ve seen. Great advice! I’ve been “meaning” to learn the Nashville system for several years. Going to commit to that this month. Thanks fellas!
You can do it. Bill!! It’s just the major scale. The label Nashville Numbering System sounds fancy, but it’s just the major scale. Sit down at the piano and start on C and play all the white notes until to get to the next C. You just played a C major scale. Now starting on C, play every other note until you have a 3 note chord. That’s the 1 chord. Move up to D and play every other note until you get a 3 note chord. Thats the 2 chord because it starts on the second degree of the scale. Start on E and do it again. Thats the 3 chord. Continue until you have reached the next C. That’s the basic idea. It is best understood on piano and in C. Sure, we need to know what makes a chord minor or major, and there are major 7’s and 9’s and extensions and alterations and such. But it has nothing to do with Nashville and it’s not a secret language. It’s just the major scale. Been used for centuries as the foundation of music. Don’t be intimidated by it. Chances are, you already use the principles of the system. When you play a song in Bb but use the chords from G (by use of a capo in the 3rd fret) you are using the system. You play a G to C…but you are really playing a Bb to an Eb. It works because moving from a 1 chord to a 4 chord is ALWAYS the same interval…makes no difference where you start. Sorry for long post. I am passionate about this. Its the key that unlocks everything. Once learned and internalized it will never matter to you what key a song is in. The scale and intervals are all the same. And you don’t need to go to Nashville to learn how it works! Lol
Great tips
Thanks for watching!
I like to import the songs to a daw and using the markers just map the song.. it helps me to internalize the parts !! Also I use different colors to each part of the song.. for example: Chorus is Red.. bridge - green
Thanks guys. Helpful as always. You guys ever think about sharing how you record your music? A gear walk through like mics and interfaces you like?
Just uploaded something similar today actually! And there’s a few other videos we’ve done in that realm as well!
I like to import Multitracks into logic, learn the song and then practice removing the guitar tracks. I lot of times you think you know the song playing along with a track only to realize you don’t have it Sunday. Removing the track confirms you have it and what part to play if you are the only guitar.
More tips videos!!!!
friiiii oh secooooond :) This is a great topic just looking at the title - something that takes me time to do.
We need more outtakes!!!
same god is really fun to play, and i made a pretty killer pod go patch for it
yo this is great.
Nicee thank you for sharing. 1 4 5 are major correct. 2 3 6 are minors. But the 7 (diminished) also has a minor interval in it if you start from it’s root note. It’s because of the flat5 that it sounds different than the other minor chords. How do you see the 7?
"I never get to start a video..." lol hilarious
My method is 1) get the lyrics 2) listen to the song find the key and note where the chord changes are 3) listen to the song again and input the chords of that key over the chord change's
Good stuff. I have no hate for capos as a tool but they are hard on fret wear.
Please make some tutorial from old church basement by elevation looking forward for it!!
I listen to my part, let's say electric guitar 2. I'll print out the chart and have it in front of me. I look up on UA-cam and see if there's someone who played it before. If so and I like it I'll use it. If not I'll listen to my part and mark on the chord chart where I come in on the song. Like at 1:45 in the song. Then I'll listen to the full recording and listen to the point where I come in and go out. Also other tones in different parts of the song. Then I play it standing up and try to play it without the chart. There's no pressure because I'm practicing and I can make mistakes. Like Brandon said learn the theory of the Nashville number system. Most songs will have a one four five minor six. And learn the arpeggios of those chords. That's where most of the parts come from. The arpeggios are the one four five of the chord. They are the tones that sound the best in the chord.
Literally just learned this song yesterday for this upcoming Sundays church service
Yo! Bradford!
Is that a Rogue Territory supply jacket? Nice color!
It is! It’s a special run of olive RGT did with Iron Shop Provisions. I love it!
Listen to it whist driving around to get the feel of it, then sit with the chord sheet at the piano and pencil in what I think I hear. (then show up to band practice and learn they want me on Hammond, not piano, for that song!)
tune the reference UA-cam video to the correct key, practice along with that for 3-5 days, day before a service I put my board down on the floor as if I'm practicing live with the band, generally speaking I'm ready after that routine
What are you using to tune the reference video to the correct key?
What if I’m learning the song completely in the dark? For example my worship leader gives us the keys of the song only, but he provides no chart not overview of the song meaning I’m completely lost when it comes to the knowing the sequence of the song, as a result it makes it look like I don’t know the song. I’m taking what Bradford said in consideration in the video of course, however I feel like I still need more to go on for my situation. Any advice? Anyone?
I sincerely hope that your worship leader is giving you the songs and keys with plenty of notice (like a couple weeks) so you have the time to prepare and practice. Otherwise, that may be a conversation you need to have with them about providing you the resources to come prepared for your rehearsal and/or Sunday, given your team's schedule and routine.
As for learning a song, here's my advice... apply basic Nashville Numbers to the info you have-the key of the song. By and large, you can assume that the song will use the 1, 4, 5, and 6... 1, 4, and 5 will be major while the 6 will be minor. Let's say for example your song is in C. Your 1, 4, 5 and 6 will be C, F, G and Am, respectively. Try out each one of those chords as you play along with the song until you match what you're hearing. When you hear a chord change, try a different one of those chords. By process of elimination, it's likely one of the other three chords out of the 1, 4, 5 and 6 that you didn't play prior. Rinse and repeat for each chord change that you hear. There's no rule that a song can't repeat a prior chord (such as 1, 5, 1). There's no rule that you have to use all four chords (the whole song might only use 1, 4 and 5). There's no rule that the song won't have another chord in there that isn't part of the 1, 4, 5 and 6 (like Bradford mentioned, it could have 2, 3, or 7). The theory application to this process is getting to know the 1s, 4s, 5s, and 6s of most major keys.
Practice knowing that 1, 4, 5, and 6 will likely help you figure out 85-90% or more of the song! The more you practice, the more you'll develop your ear, the more proverbial tools you add to your box, the better you get a picking apart the chords.
I would talk to your worship leader and ask for help. That isn’t the greatest way to honor and lead a team/you. I learn songs without charts most of the time myself, but that is because I have studied music long enough to know how it works and is not something that everyone can or needs to do.
I'm more interested in Brian's method of sourcing those jean jackets? lol
This comment only inspires me to get more. Maybe we'll make a vlog about getting jean jackets. Also - Macy's is where I got this one, ha.
@@worshiptutorials I’m here for that content! Keep up the good work guys. Love your videos! They’ve helped me a lot with dialing in my Helix!
Learn your basic theory boys and girls!
Random rant from the peanut gallery here. I do a lot of these same things and spend hours mastering a new song that our leader puts up well in advance. Oftentimes I show up to practice, and the vocalist (not our leader) says, “I don’t really know how the song goes.” What? Like how? You didn’t even bother to listen to it?! Those are my least favorite practices.
In addition I will sit down and count it out. I’ll have the sing on Onsong. And count along with the song. Not all chord changes are on the one. G two, C two, D two three four, G……….
Firssssst
I feel like most of you haven’t watched till the end 😏😂
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My Process:
1) Play the song I never heard before and try to figure out the key and chord progression by ear on my acoustic guitar.
2) play the song again and do the same thing over and over
3) sing and play.
4) switch to electric guitar and try to listen and mimic the lead guitar
I learned to play by ear so all the numbers make me feel like I’m in a math class. 😂😂😂
Learn the numbers and watch that ear get better ;)
Its in my Channel😇
Tell us how you really feel Brad... 0:01
My Channel.
A capo maybe a tool, but everyone I know who uses one can barely play. They use them so they can play everything with the same chords.
I use them. And I can play.
@@worshiptutorials Do you use one on every song so you can use the same chords?
Well there’s a difference between using a capo as a tool and using one as a crutch.
But using one as a tool is still using one.
Not the best guys but thanks anyway
Not the best? No trying to be the best. Just trying to help people. For free, I might add.