Bad ears then what?

cnev · 2013-04-23T23:17:47Z

Ok the title is a bit misleading because I couldn't really think of an appropriate title. Another boring day at work ( even moreso now that we have been told we are being outsourced and get to train our replacements..yippee)Anyway back to music. I had posted previously on what people thought about reding music vs playing by ear but I have a different twist on it and I'm not necessarily sure I have an actual question but maybe.OK I'll confess I don't play by ear nor can I read music (although I could along time ago at a rudimentary level when I played trumpet).So here I am several years into playing. I have taken lessons for about 5 years now with an instructor I really like. But for the most part I have asked him to tab out songs for me. Over the course of these years I have learned and played a few hundred songs. Now that I have more experience once I have his tab (which also includes note durations etc) I can learn a song in an hour or so. It's usually just a matter of remembering when the changes come although there are some riffs that take a bit of time.But I am totally addicted to his tabs, one because they are always spot on and two the way he condenses them a whole song can be written on a page or two (usually not counting any solos)I have bought tab books and books that have both tab and standard notation and some of the songs take up ten pages and with all the al codas etc it's a real pain to use them at least for me anyway.The problem is it costs a lot more money to have him tab out songs, on the flip side I could have a song that is played for the first time and have a tab for it the next day. I can't even get tab or sheet music that fast.Not sure what the point of my post is other than I guess I feel a bit weird that I am playing in a band and this is how I learn how to play songs it seems a bit unmusical.In my world I really wouldn't have much use for sight reading skills but a good ear would be nice, and along those lines my problem is even if I was able to pick up some chords and notes by ear I don't think I'd get everything right and I hate playing songs "almost" like the original.His ear is so good that he catchs things I don't hear without having to listen very carefully and I've heard other people that supposedly play by ear but they never really get it quite right.Anyone feel the same way or have been like that but moved on to playing by ear?

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30/05/2013 5:38 am

i usually just play along until i get it down. it can vary how long it takes me, and i don't always get it spot on before i play or improvise on it.

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14/06/2013 5:23 am

And the more you do it - the less time it takes. :D

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