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.
between @Nagarjuna's advice and your teoria.com i think i'm gonna have start learning how to play piano too lol. in all seriousness though i'm gonna download audacity and try that out with a few songs i want to learn. and i won't lie to you i tried out teoria.com and i am atrocious at it. i think i'm gonna have to learn what each key on a piano does first to do the note ear training properly. but the chord ones i can practice with that straight away. when i was trying to tell the difference between major, minor, diminished, and augmented i got 4 right out of 15 lol. gotta start practicing those sounds.
thank you so much for the help :Care-Comrade:
No need to learn to play piano! Just try and match the piano pitch with your guitar! If you're having trouble doing the exercise from a random note, try the "from selected note" option under "interval ear training". And I don't blame you for only getting 4/15 correct, guessing out of four chord qualities (maj, min, dim, aug) can be very difficult for a beginner. When you're setting up the chord exercise I would highly recommend to limit yourself to only two qualities (maj, min), then another two (dim, min), etc. Do all the combinations of just two options and I can guarantee you will get better at distinguishing between all four being an option.