LEARN ANY SONG ON GUITAR - And Practice Your Ears
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- Опубліковано 27 лис 2018
- A video showing how I learn other bands music for covers and such and with that also showing some software tricks on how to learn the most difficult solos.
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Not my best face day... My make-up team was on vacation. Anyway, here's a video showing how I learn songs for instance when I do covers.
Ola Englund
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Just a heads up for people... VLC media player also has a slow down while keeping pitch feature. I use that to learn fast song parts.
Can it loop some parts?
dyeguitar you can go to tunetranscriber.com, upload an mp3 and change both pitch and tempo to your liking, down to 50% tempo in the free version if I remember correctly. perfect if you want to learn songs in different tunings and don’t want to change guitar/tuning all the time. I’m pretty sure It also lets you mark and loop wherever you want in the song.
Holy crap l, so simple, so effective, so obvious. Thanks for the tip. I really hadn't thought of it
Guys - try the free Aimp3 media player - it has pitch correction, slow/fast, A - B repeat and all you need to play along a song!!
Ive used vlc for years and am still using it. Really great free software
I learnt to burp by ear, despite you are a great tutorial!
rofl!!!
@@pablocuello4184 :)
Same here Ola, learning songs of my favorite bands got me to get better at guitar and I have gotten much better all self taught.
For anyone who doesn't have a DAW, you can use UA-cam's play speed as well. You just won't be able to loop easily!
Or the classic VLC!!
Or try Reaper. It has free trial version and reasonable price.
if you're sensible and use magic actions for youtube you can just right click drag the section of video to loop
I've been playing for a few years now and it's amazing how much a slightly different note or chord can make or break the feel of a song. I get exactly what you're saying, about how listening to the song vs. how a tab a tab tells you to play it can sound or feel totally incorrect. It boils down to those little notes or special chords that really add flavor and taste to the song. I prefer to learn guitar by watching a video of the original musician playing, if possible.
Ola!!
You the man!! Just wanted to say thankyou for all the feared and haunted music!!
Ive been rocking exit wounds album on repeat for weeks!!!
Don't stop being ola!!!
Huge Ola fan here. I love all this information. It's making me a better player. Thank you Ola
Great stuff, Ola! When I’m learning songs for the Sleep lessons I do on my channel I typically study mounds of UA-cam footage of the band playing the song live to get the riffs and positions of the riffs as close as possible.
Your channel is amazing thanks s lot,Doom on!
I learned that intro from watching you do it on FAQ, some weeks back. Gonna have to learn the rest of the song, now. Thanks for everything you do, Ola 🤘
Love all your videos Ola! Always entertaining and informative. Thank you for being you. - Jonny
I learned by playing to a radio - started at 8 years old. It's tough to learn Stairway to Heaven. -it only came on the radio every 2 weeks. I can play most anything after hearing it once -barring some solos. I can also play songs in my head like a cd player. The entire band and arrangement. It's absolutely the most useful skill you can acquire. It does help you write, because it forces you to study the composition.Jimmy Page, the Beatles, they learned covers. It's like reading a book. You get a glimpse into the mind who created it. Very enlightening.
This was such an awesome video. Very true how learning by ear can give you that edge when it comes to writing your own songs! Most of the music I come up with will come to me while I’m sitting and learning a new song. The inspiration and emotions are all there and everything just falls into place. Unfortunately, I’m into Periphery right now and I find it extremely difficult to mimic their technique. I’ll try this Logic Pro approach, cutting and looping parts of the songs until I get it right. Thanks Ola! (BELCH!!!!)
I totally agree, learning any songs or guitar play just by ear is the best music school ever ! really improves your own style and technique
Very nice! They had something like this in guitar hero 80cs which helped me understand guitar hero alot better back in the day, will check this out when i finally get a recording program on my computer!
Literally did a video on my question from the last FAQ. Absolute legend!
That's how you learn the best, definitely.
I'm still doing it the old-school way, with a Cd player, the head against the speaker, play/return/play/return/play and so on......
Thank you for another great video, Ola!
Cheers!
I have been using "Transcribe!", which is dedicated to this purpose, for years. You can change pitch and speed separately. Therefore, you don't have to change your tuning for each song which has a different tuning than yours. Also one can adjust the EQ to hear some exact frequency bands. It has a loop option, as well, to practice certain parts of the songs.
Been using it for years. Great software and amazingly cheap.
The video title IMMEDIATELY grabbed my attention- got here as fast as I could- because this skill is something EVERYONE has control over, and doesn’t rely on gear. It’s super important- and Ola’s take on it would be AWESOME!
You are an huge influence Ola, thank you!
excellent tip! thank you ola
Remember back in the day play> stop> rewind>repeat, :) Excellent belch it genuinely made med happy, :)
I mostly learned guitar for the first few years without the internet so I began training my ear early. I used to use a lot of tabs but I found that I somewhat grew out of them. Use them occasionally but prefer to learn song by trial and error. Great video!
Keep up the good work! Love your vids
Wowww! Such a great idea!
Great as always, this make a lot of sence !
awesome video Ola!
Really great video keep it up man
Thanks for this video!
Thanks for this tutorial, Ola! I totally should practice my ears more.
Ola you are the best teacher...
Nice video Ola, very useful information for the burgeoning guitarist.
I used to play my favorite songs through my stereo system, record that signal with a mic and 4-track cassette recorder that I could then replay at 50% speed. Doing so, I progressed in my playing accuracy as well as in my 'ear' acuity.
Thank you for this kind of tips my Master!
Thanks Ola some very useful information there :) 🤘🏻
I appreciate this fine video installment of music tutelage.
Awsome advices from the awsome Ola the Swede. Thanks.
Nice tip. I will try this in the Sonar to learn some musics.
Thanks for the varispeed feature, i was not aware of it!
Is the best canal..que som matador..obrigado mestre...
That was spot on. A song I have been struggling with the last couple og weeks. Haha. To manage Dime,s “ Texas soul” rhythm style is not easy... I discovered that I’m kinda thinking to mush with tabs, and forget just to play be rhythm feel. Must admit that I’m often go for the tabs though, I think that I’m getting some playing experience, which i feel is paying of, in he sense that I find it easier to listen what going on in songs.
Hey Ola and thanks for another awesome video!
I don't have a guitar on me right now to try it out myself, but what I'm hearing in the slowed down version is both 2nd and 3rd fret in the same interval. So basically like a half of the part you play 2nd fret only is on the 2nd fret and then the other half moves on the 3rd fret within the same gallop. I wish I could try it out and have a more accurate idea. Who knows, I might be wrong, or right! Not trying to call you out here by any means.
Keep up the great content!
Damn... you said that you're not able to practice your technique for more than 10 minutes yet you convienced me to practice mine for 14 days! Thank's for another tip!
Bless you Ola. I have the same mug.
That’s how I learned to play guitar and always teach ears first. Thank you sweet Ola!
Did not know about this feature in Logic... thank you so much and I hope to try this out on some Pantera tracks myself that I have struggled with over the years \m/
Thank you, Ola... very useful information, though at my time back in the 80's, when we wanted to learn a song, we had a tape player with cassettes and going back and forth in an effort to learn how to play a song. And it was an enormous tool in ear training.
I really wish I had this when CFH came out, lol! I tried to play this SO many times, by ear! I did it the way you used to play it, too, but now I see it was wrong all this time, whoa?!
Thanks for showing this. 🤘
Sweet Ola!!! 💪🏽🐻🤘🏽
Awesome, thank you 🙏🏻
Great tutorial! Dime is quirky. Reminds me a lot of EVH. All kinds of little tricks and gadgets happening.
Transcribe is perfect program for these kind of situations. It slows down and pitch shifts on multiple ways.
Picked up the guitar again 5 yrs ago & have learnt everything by ear. It takes more time but is more fun and I find I keep the knowledge better than reading it off some half assed tab.
This is what I do! I use my Audipo app. Which is works for me. Cool video,man!
Hey Ola....A biiiig BUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRPPPP of approval....I remember sitting with my guitar in front of the stereo and learning the songs of MetallicA's Kill 'em All by running the record in all different speeds I could run the f*¥king record player....great that there are all these cool tools out there.....Thanks for the great videos!!!
That was way cool !!
totally agree .....great playing songs....it's more fun than playing scales....after playing so many George Lynch's stuff I myself seem to find each new song of his easier
because I kind of know his style....
Sorry if someone else already mentioned this, but it's possible to change tempo while preserving pitch in Reaper. Awesome advice!
Absolutely love the stache keep it
Brilliant video. I used to unplug speakers on my stereo to ear rhythm and lead. The only problem I had from learning by ear was it made my technique very odd. I did take some lessons for scales and key. So knowing what key a song was in helped bodge my way through some bits. I am pretty competent but I get lazy.. So the 14 day challenge is a way to pick up techniques. I don't want to be a speed merchant.. Just more competent so this will help massively.
again , that's an Ola-Smart thing . Thanks Ola !
Yes! Music is art for the ears, so those are the tools you need to develop. Only if I'm short of time or there is some music I want to extract that I don't really care enough for to PLAY CORRECTLY but I like the overall chord progression or some kind of something about itI usually skip the ears and cheat instead, just to get started.
Thanks, really good tip. I have bunch of my own songs that i don't remember how to play and some of them we have practised with my band, but still some of them are lost.
Not sure are any of them worth of relearning, but in other hand i think those should be quite ok, when we have learned them as a band. Usually if riff wont stuck with me then usually it is not worthy.
Albsolutly a valuable skill to have, i often use the playback speed feature on youtube to slow down the audio, and video if necessary to see where someones hands are on the neck. But you know sometimes you just need a couple of pointers....
Riff station is a great progam to slow down audio files. I would highly recommend it if you don't have a daw
Hey Ola! Thanks for the video! I've been trying to figure out ways to better my ear and playing in general, so this is very useful. :)
Side note, when I want to hear some sick, heavy guitar riff and Spotify doesn't satisfy, I frequent your amp demo vids to make sure my ear drums aren't too grateful for existing :)
That was the way I learned your solos from Fall of Man, Engines of Death and Your Black is my white.
Piece by piece in a slow speed using Reaper.
Amazing Slow Downer is another helpful app.
Awesome advice Ola. And for those of us who are either too broke, too lazy or too cheap to get Logic or any similar apps, Windows Media Player allows you to slow down songs while retaining proper pitch as well. Rock on you crazy Swede!
Back in the day i used to use my cd player with the a b feature. and I would practice the part until it was perfect. Then i would move on to the next part,but i would start from the beginning till i got to the end. This made me a machine. Every band i was in unfortunately had a drummer that could not play the same song twice,and would stare at me waiting for changes. I agree with you on not looking at tabs and learning by ear for the emotion of the song and how i interpreted how they played it. I also ran into tabs that were completely wrong so i gave up on that shit and learned by ear. By the way...what the hell is up with that lock of hair pointing strait forward...i could not stop staring at it XD.
Very good video, Ola! And, timely for me. I've been a Tab Only guy for a long time, even knowing that most of them (off the internet, or even the 'official' books) are not very accurate. So I've been trying to learn some songs by ear. It's tricky, but I am learning that it is doable, I always thought it was a 'Born With It' natural talent that I simply didn't have. I use Reaper, but would like something easier to be able to just pull up and load a song to play around with. Some of the commenters below mentioned Riffstation and Transcribe!. So, I'm playing with Riffstation right now, and WOW! This beats the heck out of the old play-rw-play routine! I also liked your commentary about learning other's songs is a great way to learn. I am always a bit concerned at some of the comments I see on various Guitar Cover videos about how covers are either dumb, skill-less, or worthless. I've always thought I learn a ton by figuring out a song, the whole song. I learn new techniques, pushes me out of my comfort zone, and helps me get into that artist's head a bit in how they construct songs and play them on the instrument. We all can't just sit down and crank out Top 40 hits from day one...
Cool process to break songs down
well done!!!
Ola.... you're the mother effing man! Thx
Damn!,Thank you!
Back in the late 80s early 90s all I had is cassette tapes (which de tune the song as tape stretches), couldn't really slow songs down, I didn't even have a frickin' TUNER! I tuned my guitar with a landline phone - when you pick up the phone, the sound you hear is A (not perfect but hey) and that's how I tuned my Czechoslovakian Jolana guitar :D
And FFW to 2018. and what I often hear is musicians bitching about this, that, talk about their "in depth 'knowledge' of crap" (yet they have no clue on the matter) when in fact they have all these new amazing gadgets, the web, online schools, etc.
But at the end of the day - I'm thankful for the hardships I had as a kid, because I know I KNOW when I talk about something and not just quoting some guy from the web.
@Ola - this video is an AWESOME presentation of how to use your ears, instead of learning some tabs filled with mistakes.
Thanks Ola. I see that you think just like me. Your confidence is coming along great. The album I'm working on should be done soon. I will send you a free copy. I'll be in touch on how to do that behind the scenes. We are in different time zones so probably are not awake at the same times, but I also never sleep so I will let you know when it's done and you can tell me where you want me to send it. Depending on if my drummer wants to travel, maybe we could do some shows together.
Thank you!
Great video. Ear training is always best, and being able to slow down songs in pitch is such a game changer. I’ve run across a lot of tabs that are slightly off, especially when compared to the actual artist playing that song. Like the band Feared. Whoever ever tabbed those books clearly doesn’t know the guitarist uses his exceedingly long hair to do all the fretwork whilst he drinks beer and head bangs. 🤣 🍺
“I’m gonna teach how you how to use your ear like the good ol fashioned way”
*opens up Logic Pro and uses that the whole time
Thanks Ola.
Your method of learning songs by hearing them over and over again is exactly what I and hundreds of musicians did throughout my (their) complete carreer. A handy tip for every grade of musicians, beginners to pros.
Btw., the well known VLC Media Player (Freeware) is able to slow down any data format he is able to play. And you can set bookmarks and repeat the marked part, so you are able to repeate a part of a song as long as you like.
It was not that easy back in the days when we had vinyl albums, and you had to lift the needle of the record player like hundreds of times to get into a complicated part. And when you were not sure about the song, you coulkd slow down the record, just by slowing down the turntable with your thumb. The music was completely out of tune then (for sure), but you had an idea of how the song was played. And, sure enough, Tipton and Downing didn't play stuff as fast and complicated as Dimebag did in his time. So not only usefull technic evolved, musicians did, too.
I do this all the time in Reaper. Another tip to build on this is to add an eq on the track and cut the lows and boost the mids to make the guitar stand out a little more.
That's how I learned songs. Except I did it with cassette tapes in the early 80s Haha. Wore out a lot of tapes by constantly rewinding 😂
Back in the mids 90's I was using a software called cool edit 96 to loop any riff and slow down and keep the pitch, I still use it but it is called Adobe Audition now. Before that I used cassettes tapes :D
PS. I recomend to use headphones to play by ear, and move your guitar to left or right channel so you can hear both more clear.
Ola, I slow down your burps and learn how to replicate them using this method. I've really begun to notice the results - twice the length of the burp gets twice as much the Wamin! Thanks dude! Great video. =)
Like before watch your vid as always.🤘👍
I use Transcribe! or Capo (Mac only) but the UA-cam Speed functionality is very handy as well!
Very good, epic burps!
Funny, I asked you this question after the workshop in Moscow, and now I see the video made on this question)
I use Transcribe! for this thing, and I totally agree that playing exercises with metronome is kinda boring, its just KILLING you
After you made a cover on The River Dragon Has Come, I started to learn a solo from this song (only a solo cause I dont have a 7-string guitar), and after a month I still cant play it properly, all because I started to learn the sweep part with alternate picking just like was written in tabs, and what a freaking relief I felt when I saw that Jeff sweeps in that part...
lolll its really nice advice for people. I love this song. Every song on this album. CFH Tattoo on my arm. Best album so far in the 90's
Great tip. You can also slow down videos on UA-cam with same pitch
there's also the ''Amazin Slow Downer'' by Roni Music. Very good program for transcribing
I use Reaper to learn songs (it's freeware with a nag screen so it doesn't cost you anything to try).
I drop the song on a track and then use the project play rate adjustment and it'll use Elastique to slow it down while keeping the pitch.
Then you can put some loop markers to repeat some part if needed, and you can record your instrument on another track and you can immediately hear if you did something wrong since if you do it right, you can't hear your playing since it'll fit perfectly to the original track.
If you want, you can easily detect tempo or align it to grid etc.
If you play keyboards, you can record MIDI when you learn the song and then you can make transcription out of it at the same time with he notation features... or tabs if you put some more effort into it :D
Highly Recommended :)
thanks
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The amount of different tunings used in metal makes learning songs by ear significantly harder in my opinion.
Especially bands like Pantera and Metallica (sometimes) who tune to 432Hz E standard really complicates thing.
I know it’s not metal but I’ve learned how to play quite a few Polvo and Sonic Youth songs by ear. At first it’s hard to hear the tunings after you get a couple down you start to hear the different tunings. Take note of open chords.
I have ADD when it comes to practicing, I always end up playing other stuff
Damn Monotony always getting in the way of success. 😁
Little late haha I have ADD too but have great rythm feeling and learning most stuff by ear!
I usually try and find a few live performance videos of the song I want to learn for the same reason that most tabs I’ll look for are incorrect. Then I’ll change the tempo of the track to get the accurate notes from the recording 🤘🏻
For simple one string and two string riffs in E standard I can figure them out somewhat easily, but anything tuned lower than D standard is hard to figure out what tuning it's in, as well as how they're playing it. I also need to learn more chords so I can spot them by ear which I'm sure would help a lot. As for tabs being wrong, I compensate for this by playing the riff from the song on my phone, then learning the tab. Usually it's simple stuff wrong in tabs like not including hammer ons/offs, vibrato, or overcomplicating a riff with spread out notes in which case I try to rewrite the riffs myself so the notes are closer together and is easier to play. Even if the tab is correct I do this sometimes because honestly fuck playing a riff that requires me to go from the first fret to the 12th, hit the bottom string in between, then do an annoying chord when I can hit that 12th fret note on a higher string instead then do that chord higher up on the fret board so my fingers dont die.
What, you can't reach that far? It's EZ.
JK man, but I apparently have a big reach even with pretty small hands.
I mentioned this in another reply, but if you download a copy of "Transcribe" software, it has a feature to allow pitch transpositions and instrument filtering. I found it great for transposing a bass track an octave up to make it easier to learn. Also nice if you don't feel like tuning down while learning a song.
New Lime solar ltd being delivered today! Looking forward to the guitar and will be my first evertune.