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Post by daardvark on Nov 18, 2007 19:08:23 GMT -4
I've been playing music along time. Through the years I've had this discussion with numerous younger starting musicians. It's a very easy concept to describe, yet exceeding difficult to truly convey it's importance.
I'm talking about the ability to listen. No just hear, but listen to music. This is not a passive activity. Hearing is passive. Listening is an active process which takes dedicated concentration. You must develop this over time and practice (Sound familiar guitar player?).
Over time you should be able to learn a song much faster (No crappy inaccurate tab needed)
Listen to the tone, listen to the delicate interplay between instruments. Listen for queues which will allow you to remember the song. It might be a vocal phrase or awhatever. They are in every song I've ever listened to
Anyway I just thought I share this. I hope someone may benefit. And don't cheat cause you're only cheating yourself. Learn to listen and you'll reap the reward.
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Post by Rustee on Nov 18, 2007 22:31:36 GMT -4
Yep, good point. I try to do this as well, yet it also contributes to me thinking much of the music "produced" today in the age of the ipod is crap.
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Post by earthman on Nov 19, 2007 1:01:06 GMT -4
Sometimes when I listen to the radio in a car with other people, I wonder if they're hearing everything I'm hearing. I like to think that being a musician and all enables me to hear things that they just don't....but then again I am delusional.
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Post by Akira on Nov 19, 2007 8:56:22 GMT -4
Sometimes when I listen to the radio in a car with other people, I wonder if they're hearing everything I'm hearing. I like to think that being a musician and all enables me to hear things that they just don't....but then again I am delusional. I agree with this. I've often listened back on tracks I'd liked before I started playing guitar and noticed loads of things in the songs that I was oblivious to before.
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Post by Skeleton Keys on Nov 19, 2007 12:06:16 GMT -4
There is absolutely a huge difference between hearing and listening. I try to tell that to anyone who is just starting, becuase in the further down the road, things will be much easier. Besides, it may give them initiative to start doing other things like that, like applying thier knowledge of theory to the songs they learn instead of just learning the shapes and places to put thier fingers. It is a very good peace of advice.
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Post by hdj on Nov 19, 2007 18:42:02 GMT -4
I know exactly what your talking about...I've developed the ear to hear things in music that most can't.
When you get to the point of being able to tune out everything in a song except for one part, then you're on track to develolping the ear to listen.
In other words, tune out everything except for the bass line....pay total attention to the bass line and nothing else.. Then tune out everything except the lead or rhythm guitar....
Took me a long time to be able to do that and you'll end up hearing a lot of stuff in a song that you normally would never notice...
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Post by earthman on Nov 19, 2007 20:03:22 GMT -4
Yeah, I love doing that. It's neat too how after a few times of going through each instrument, you can hear ALL of them at once, completely. And then it's like "Oh, so this is the REAL song. What was I listening to before?"
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