| Learning how to play a guitar can be accomplished | | | | making a career in music. The following paragraph |
| through different methods depending on your | | | | gives a few tips for learning to play the guitar by |
| convenience and aptitude - taking private lessons | | | | the ear. |
| from an expert teacher, using teach yourself | | | | Tips for learning to play guitar by the ear |
| books or videos that demonstrate the instructions | | | | Training the ears to listen to the music carefully is |
| to be followed or through websites that offer | | | | the first step in learning to play guitar by the ear. |
| guitar lessons. | | | | Having an ear for music need not be an inborn |
| Irrespective of how you learn, the ultimate aim of | | | | quality alone but can be developed through |
| learning to play the guitar is to play a song that | | | | practice. You can prepare your ears to pickup |
| you are fond of or familiar with. The song may | | | | different features of the music. You have to learn |
| be your favorite song from your childhood heard | | | | to identify different chords in the music and the |
| over the radio or CD or TV or in a concert and | | | | changes in them even as a song is played. You |
| might have been played by your favorite band. | | | | should be able to distinguish between the major |
| Whatever be the nature of the song, the usual | | | | and the minor chords. |
| way of learning to play it is to buy the sheet | | | | A deep interest in the type of music that is being |
| music and read from it and practice it. But a | | | | played helps in quickly learning its finer points. |
| superior method of learning a song is to learn it | | | | Tuning the guitar so that it matches with the |
| by the ear i.e. to learn by keenly listening to the | | | | song you want to play is the next step. This step |
| song. | | | | requires a little practice and patience and individual |
| This technique can be applied to practically any | | | | string may have to be tuned to match each |
| type of song and all you need is a CD player to | | | | individual note of the song. |
| play it. The instrument used to replay the song | | | | With these basic tips, you can learn to play the |
| does not really matter. It is a very useful skill that | | | | guitar by the ear through regular practice. It is not |
| you need to develop if you are interested in | | | | as hard as it sounds as. |