are there any good resources or any insider knowledge here on how you learn to play things by ear?
i've been wanting to learn a few songs for a while but the extent of information about them online is just chords, and that doesn't help me with finger picking patterns at all so i was wondering if you had any good tips on getting started with it because i have no idea where i'd even begin. (i know i can just google "how to learn to play by ear" (and i am doing that as well) but i like to ask here as well because it's nice to hear directly frmo real people)
plus i think playing by ear is a really good skill to have in general so i don't have to rely on tabs and youtube videos to learn songs.
if you learn the modes of the major scale theory (it's just seven scales) it's pretty easy to play by ear after that. every song is basically one of the modes, and there's only 7 of them. there'll be like a note in some rare songs that'll be a half step up or down, but once you've learned a few songs by ear using the modes, you'll even be able to play those by ear.