I honestly didnt learn a thing till i literally spent 5 hours a night playing along to every song on my itunes playlists. Then i started listening to music and humming like crazy. I not only learned how to play guitar but to sing and play piano. Its amazing. I literally find myself automatically gravitating to pitches. Its wierd. The humming is what I think finally locked everything together. Within a span of a month(after 5 years of unfocused dabbling with tabs and theory) i was able to discern intervals and ever the qualities of tones in a scale. I can totally hear maj 7ths and extentions, tonal changes etc. Honestly i saw this video and couldnt believe it because everything in here I picked up in bits and pieces. The drone notes, the humming. I hope people watch this and realize this is the "one big secret" video. I wish you had made this 5 years ago, but honestly figuring it out myself is probably what made me successful.

Started learning by ear a week ago after playing guitar for a year and damn does it feel amazing when you figure out a song and then go back to the tabs just to see that you are absolutely wrong, but NOT actually because the notes sounds the same you are just playing them abother place on the fretboard. It's absolutely amazing and motivating

Ear training was my reason for getting out of bed this past Spring, tbh. It was the first thing I did every morning, for 45 minutes, five days a week for two months. It was fun to see my progress day by day, and the results were crazy! Do it at least 15-20 minutes a day for at least a month, and you will play music differently, hear music differently, sing music differently, and write music differently.

Protip: Do this exercise while practicing inversions and learn to pick out the root 3rd and fifth in different positions down the neck. Sing the note as well

I'd just like to say that your video that's should be everyone's first guitar lesson made me have the confidence to start guitar I bought my first guitar a couple weeks ago and I'm having a blast with it

One of my ear training exercises is just tuning by ear

I've been playing guitar for over ten years now, always complaining about my bad ear. All I do is improvise, having fun and it works great too, i can solo for hours, but i never could identify chords or single tones very well. This is exactly what i needed. Feels easy, natural even. To be fair i know i have been training my ear without knowing, but i now i know exactly how. Thank you so much.

I like Mike's videos the most, honestly this guy simply starts his videos not by seeking for subscriptions or notifications, he just starts. One of the few guys I don't really mind having the "patreons" :D

You just blew my mind dude. It's like I was blind my whole life and now I can see.

Was trying to learn the solo to La Villa Strangiato by ear today, I got a good chunk through, however it really opened my eyes to how bad my ears were.

I have been studying ear Training for so long and this, by far, is the best method. Awesome lesson as usual.

Great lesson Mike! I have been looking at improving my ear training and this was an excellent addition. Thank you.

Fantastic lesson, looking forward to doing it in the site.

This really helps a lot. Playing for years and really had troubles hearing out specific notes. Thx this definitely made my day :)

One of your best lessons yet!!!!

Hey man i love your videos your my favourite teacher on youtube cuz i feel i can connect with your story the most

Thank you for this.... definitely a missing piece of the puzzle for me and my playing.. this starts me onto a whole other level..

Great video! Really shows ones again that the most simple things develop our musical consciousness in such deep way and also points out the importence of our musical ear. Everything has to get its attention time to time although it can be annoying or rough. Thanks for this re-realization ! ( hopefully my english isnt too bad, no native speaker here =))

This is honestly the easiest way I've ever heard learning ear training explained. Thank you

Outstanding, thanks for bringing things together on how to use ear training with playing guitar.

Yup, this is so important. Thanks for bringing it up, man!

Nice one Mike, looking forward for more 👍🏼

This is an ear-opener of a lesson Mike! I discovered that I definitely have a personal tendency like most to hear the high note in a triad the most. But yes the humming exercise definitely helped me “tune” my ear towards homing on a specific frequency of the triad. Out of this lesson, I thought I’d do a variation of this exercise, and start playing a power chord, but “fill in the blank” by humming in the Third. I want to see if I can use my vocals together with a guitar to render a triad accurately in both Major and minor qualities…

I just want to say thank you so much. Every single video of ear training they just say that you should try and figure out song. But this. This is diffrent

Excellent! I am encouraged to know that I am not alone in finding middle notes hard to identify.

Yes! Needed this like 30 years ago, but this'll have to do, lol! Totally hearing it. You RRRRRROCK MIKE! P.S. For pollen allergies: the stuff builds up in the back of your throat then works it way into the sinuses. The key is drinking, not for hydration, but to keep washing the pollen down so it doesn't build up. STRIKE TRUE BARBARIC ERIC

I'll totally use it with my students. Thanks man!!!

FANTASTIC video Mike … FAN- EFFING-TASTIC!!

so grateful this video popped up this is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks a lot this is after ages I got interested to ear training again after being a fingerstyle guitarist not having a good ear was little difficult but this helps a lot in that .

My dad taught me solfege, and I picked up the "humming technique" from him. He used to hum the melody and work out the chords. This, combined with a little theory on chord structure makes playing the guitar a lot more fun. Im still stumped at some of the chord variations my dad comes up with to transform a song.

Trying to transcribe chords into midi software (musescore and TuxGuitar) has helped me get a feel, just singing or playing a note I THINK is in there, maybe a seventh if what I've transcribed doesn't sound quite the same as the actual music. I still find it surprisingly easy to miss a 3rd, and I play acoustic, so distortion isn't usually an excuse unless I'm trying to arrange something specifically so I can play it, but speaking of thirds, I find playing the movable F shape means you get three of the most consonant interval (Octaves/same pitch class), 2 of the second most consonant interval (fifth) and by placing and removing your pinky you get the least consonant interval, whether it be the major or minor third, and I like to alternate between major and minor to hear the difference and pick out the third(s) that way. I also like to harmonize with different objects, starting with a fifth, then the fourth, then trying thirds. Electric toothbrushes, razors, the other day I was vacuuming and I managed to sing a fourth below the vacuum cleaner (so I was singing the "root" and the vacuum was a fifth above that) and it made the interval come out a lot clearer compared to the many relatively inharmonic partials the noise of the vacuum consists of, and it's a weird feeling, all right.

I do this with chord books it really fun I love ear training it my favourite practice I feel more close to my guitar thanks for the tip

Brother... I've played for over 40 years, but could NEVER sing. My wife even bought me voice lessons from a local college with an excellent music dept for Christmas one year... the instructor, at the end of a couple months, told me to just stick with guitar...lol But this... kind of embarrassed after playing so long, was brilliant... thanks.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. In the short time listening to the video I was amazed I started to hear the separation. Now for more practice

Awesome lesson.. Thank You

Thanks man just woke up. Coffee now ☕☕. Then headed to gym. I saved going to check this out later. Take care 👍💯✌️🎸

Hey, this is a great exercise to train your ear. I'm going to use it on guitar and piano since fretted notes on the guitar are slightly off-pitch because the guitar uses equal temperament.

Thank you man, great lesson

This is an amazing video!

Haven't seen this one before, good stuff

Very useful. Thanks

I would always humm the solos to songs or instrumentals, my friends and band mates thought it was weird but now I’m realizing how important that really is.

A tip for this that I found to help is if your having trouble hearing the note you want, play all 3 notes and mute the other notes by the bridge with your picking hand, you’ll be able to realize if your hearing the correct note or not because it will now be the only one left ringing.

I am learning from your video, and that's why I will come back surely. God bless

Wow it seriously worked!! Thank you!!

Hell yea that’s trippy, I really needed this

Whoa! Good job!

I have dyslexia and how I learned drums growing up was training my music ears because I couldn't read notes. Now as an adult I can learn songs by listening to them and figure out chords pretty easily.

Wow! U r great! Thank u so much I have been trying to ear train myself finally after 15yrs of playing smh and unsuccessfully n becuz of it I lose interest in playing cuz of the struggle Lol ^talk about a circle of fiths 😂 the humming and playing to ear train is like what I needed to hear today ! Got my lil notes of ur lesson also I won't forget!!

I loooovvvvveeee this video!!!!!! Thank you so much!

Thanks!

Good stuff I think this will help me a lot.

Wow!! Amazing. Thanks so much!

C major is one of the only triads I can recognize the notes of because of Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue

Great idea, thanks👍🏻

Great video thanks

This is so concise and helpful. Can't believe it's available for free here. This is a golden lesson. Looks very basic, but will actually take you a long way. I've been training my ear by myself while listening to solos from songs but needed a routine to actually practice ear training everyday. You've boosted my musical skills with this video :")

10+ years im playing by ear its so amazing

"Isn't that wild?" I love this guy

this is awesome - is helping

thank you!

that sg is so nice

Thank you!

Thank you very much Markiplier! I din't know that you could play the Agugus Yogis guitar! Being serius, this was very helpful, i actually know what cords are playing in a song ( kinda ) Thanks!

I downloaded this to listen to while I drive because it is that good

Thank you!!

Thank you so much

I find it helpful to sing "Heee" as well as Humming. Give it try......Thanks for this Great video!

I do think it's good training just to sit down with your keyboard or your guitar and "suss stuff out." I'm woefully less skilled than I'd like to be in terms of ability on any instrument, but I was always able to melodies together on my guitar pretty well. And you speak the truth - the more you do it, the easier it gets.

I actually love you

What the!!! Should have watched this before, very helpfull!

i didn’t realize when i was teaching my self piano i was training my ears, now that i’m learning guitar i was hoping i can do the same!

Is there a way I can take this to the next level? Should I just play the chords ascending in the scale? Should I try chromatic notes too?

I found that just jamming a lot developed my ear really quickly

Is there a complete ear training course? I thought I was trying deaf until I just watched this video. Thank you! I'm thinking about buying a guitar because of this!

Fun fact, if someone plays a chord like Cmajor, I will always pick the last note, in this case G. That is how I get songs lol

I'm a 39 year old who learned one song on guitar twenty years ago, but never got past that. This past Spring, I practiced guitar two hours a day, plus ear training for 45 minutes, plus singing for 45 minutes. I did that for just two months, then stopped when I got sick. Ear training is the biggest super power! I've composed a bunch of stuff already, including one that I tuned to a strange tuning by ear. It's called "Shake House Grandma." Here's the link: m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kNSFrMJ_qNWxhKM.html I haven't yet gotten back to that hardcore schedule, but I'm still working and improving every day!

The best way that can explain the middle one is to sorta look for the e in the back bc I hear the e last in the chord

Once you get this down what's the next thing to do? The same for different Triads in different chords?

thanks for this video is hard for me to hear what exactly what I’m playing so thank you 👍🤟

I did something similar but with a scale starting on the low a and humming along to internalize the pitches to help with my terrible singing lol and helped tons but it didnt click that its gonna help my ear too. Different motives multipke results so thank you. I probly should've noticed sounding out rose tattoo by dropkick was almost automatic

Thank you mike. Does this work if you have hearing damage (Marine infantry)

nice

It's not possible to like this enough

Hey! I’m a 13 year old guitarist and I was wondering what would be a intermediate metal song to do with a backing track. (Full song) Let me know a good metal song for that

Thank you. I want to play every song I want to play by ear.

I noticed that if I did CG on a piano, then CEG, that seems like it could help a bit to hear E.

Nice tips :) I was wondering if You were working on a New artist video ? ( Eric Johnson maybe ?)

Solid

that’s great! but what do u do if the notes, like the basic c e g triad, are out of your vocal range? 😵‍💫

This was cool. Thanks where do i go from here

The most effective ear training drill I know is this. Record yourself playing 2 random chords (literally any chord with random tensions) for 2 measures every day. Repeat this process until you have at least 10 mins of random chords. Then try to improvise melodically as possible. It's very effective and extremely difficult. The only downside of this is that it takes a while to complete 10 mins of chord progression.

Thanks, my ear really sucks and I’ve been trying to get better at different aspects of music theory

I learn by ear but I still buy the “official” books as a reference only especially for chords.

So how do you know what the songs are tuned in? Most rock songs are in standard E but many kiss songs are tuned differently? So generally speaking is there an easy way to tell how each song is tuned?

Life lesson

Nice

"singing freaks people out sometimes" Yes I'm one of them

I find just playing notes on an instrument as the music plays eventually you can tell when you hit identical notes.