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Start your ear training journey with Play What You Hear Program
Good ear is the most important tool for every musician but not easy to learn if you are used to play mechanically from notation and tabs. Now there is a Program which is motivating and gives results you will be satisfied with.
Play What You Hear Program is straighforward 15 weeks program with daily workouts. You don't need to make a plan for yourself how to learn to play by ear. We did it for you already. Just make sure you watch all the videos and check the preparation lessons. And don't miss the daily workouts.
Only 10-20 minutes a day is enough and you can be total beginner. Play What You Hear Program has been the missing link for many players all aroung the world who want to start playing by ear. You can read the reviews by clicking here!
Overview
Play What You Hear Program will teach you the ability to play any song you want by ear.
One of the most common problem for ear training is the lack of good daily practice routine. Some ear players give good advices like learn simple songs and just keep going slowly and you will get it. That usually works very short time and won't give much hope for players who have already developed tab and notation playing habits.
When we do ear training we don't have much handouts to follow with. That is why it is important that you have a well tailored program you can follow from day 1 and develop all the core elements you need.
By the end of the Play What You Hear Program, you will be able to:
- Sing what you play, play what you sing and do both at the same time.
- Find your vocal range with your guitar.
- Learn several techniques to find the key of the song.
- Learn all the intervals.
- Learn most important ingredients both in Major and minor keys. Triad, pentatonic scale and Major-/minor scales.
- Learn to hear different type of chords.
- Learn to harmonize Major and minor keys.
- Understand the 6 chord theory and why it is so important to internalize.
- Learn the CAGED system with both Major and minor shapes.
- Build your inner musicality with melodic openings.
- Get started with song forms, chord progression and patterns.
- Learn to harmonize simple melodies.
Preparation lessons
Every Sunday before each workout week you will see the main preparation lesson of the pattern you are going to learn. This lesson has several videos and chord charts explaining the patterns structure, fingerings and inversions. When you’ve done the preparation and have basic understanding, you can start the workout week.
Workouts
After the Sunday preparation lesson you will get access to the workouts from Monday to Friday. There is no certain time you need to join the workout. New workout will arrive to Members area daily and you can watch it as many times as you want. All workouts are pre-recorded.
Support
After the program has ended, you will get unlimited access to all the material without time limit. You can do the whole 15 weeks program as many times you want. You can also comment each lesson and workout to the comment section or send questions by email straight to Tomi. Even after the program has ended. You can send questions and videos of you playing anytime during the program.
Syllabus
Each week has one preparation lesson which will be published at the Members area every Sunday. Monday to Friday you can join the daily workouts which will develop your skills as an ear player.
Week 1 - Connect with the music. Your voice and voice of the guitar are the same.
- Workout 01 - Sing what you play Part 1
- Workout 02 - Sing what you play Part 2
- Workout 03 - Play what you sing Part 1
- Workout 04 - Play what you sing Part 2
- Workout 05 - Play and sing together
Week 2 - Find your vocal range and learn to hear, sing, play and understand chromatic scale.
- Workout 06 - Chromatic sequence down
- Workout 07 - Chromatic sequence up
- Workout 08 - Chromatic sequence up and down
- Workout 09 - Vocal range exercise
- Workout 10 - Chromatic scale horizontally and vertically
Week 3 - Before you can figure out any song from Youtube or records, you need to learn to find the key of the song. Next 5 workout drills will help you to find best possible method for you.
- Workout 11 - A-B repeat for bass or/and chord
- Workout 12 - Hum along
- Workout 13 - Scale jam
- Workout 14 - Figure out the key drills workout 1
- Workout 15 - Figure out the key drills workout 2
Week 4 - Interval training. Perfect intervals. Learn to understand theory of interval inversion and how the intervals have different sound when played up compared to the interval inversion = played down.
- Workout 16 - Jamming the Octave up and down (P8)
- Workout 17 - Jamming the Fifth up (P5)
- Workout 18 - Jamming the Fifth down (P5)
- Workout 19 - Jamming the Fourth up (P4)
- Workout 20 - Jamming the Fourth down (P4)
Week 5 - Interval training. Major intervals.
- Workout 21 - Major 2nd up and down (M2)
- Workout 22 - Major 3rd up and down (M3)
- Workout 23 - Major 6th up and down (M6)
- Workout 24 - Major 7th up and down (M7)
- Workout 25 - Major intervals drill (M2, M3, M6 and M7)
Week 6 - Interval training. Minor intervals. Learn to understand the minor difference between Major and minor intervals. Start getting familiar with the minor sound. Also explained diminished and augmented intervals at the lesson section.
- Workout 26 - Major 2nd (M2) vs. minor 2nd (m2)
- Workout 27 - Major 3rd (M3) vs. minor 3rd (m3)
- Workout 28 - Major 6th (M6) vs. minor 6th (m6)
- Workout 29 - Major 7th (M7) vs. minor 7th (m7)
- Workout 30 - Major to minor interval drill (M2-m2, M3-m3, M6-m6, M7-m7)
Week 7 - Get your foundation strong in Major key. 3 most important individual building blocks in western music.
- Workout 31 - Major Triad Part 1
- Workout 32 - Major Triad Part 2
- Workout 33 - Major Pentatonic
- Workout 34 - Major Scale Part 1
- Workout 35 - Major Scale Part 2
Week 8 - Get your foundation strong in minor key. 3 most important individual building blocks in western music.
- Workout 36 - Minor Triad Part 1
- Workout 37 - Minor Triad Part 2
- Workout 38 - Minor Pentatonic
- Workout 39 - Minor Scales Part 1
- Workout 40 - Minor Scales Part 2
Week 9 - Hearing and extending Major and minor family chords. Is it major, minor, Maj7, dominant, altered etc.?
- Workout 41 - Major Chord Drills Workout
- Workout 42 - Minor Chord Drills Workout
- Workout 43 - Extended Chords with Major 3rd
- Workout 44 - Extended Chords with minor 3rd
- Workout 45 - Common chords in western popular music drill
Week 10 - Getting ready to learn songs? Important thing learning songs is that you have your understanding of keys and what chords are in them. You will learn the ability to harmonize any key and learn the 6 chord theory in practical way. You also learn the circle of fifths.
- Workout 46 - Bass and chord degree movement between relative Major and its relative minor.
- Workout 47 - Bass and chord degree movement between Major and its 2 brother chords (=1-4-5).
- Workout 48 - Bass and chord degree movement between minor and its 2 sister chords (=6-2-3).
- Workout 49 - 6 Chord Theory Drill in Major
- Workout 50 - 6 Chord Theory Drill in minor
Week 11 - CAGED system. When learning music with ear it is important that you have certain amount of tools you can use to create the music you hear. CAGED system has been proved to be a great tool which in most basic form separated the fingerboard to 5 different sections and then connects the whole fretboard to one big whole shape.
- Workout 51 - CAGED C shape Triad, Pentatonic, Major Scale
- Workout 52 - CAGED Am shape Triad, Pentatonic, minor Scale
- Workout 53 - CAGED G shape Triad, Pentatonic, Major Scale
- Workout 54 - CAGED Em shape Triad, Pentatonic, minor Scale
- Workout 55 - CAGED D shape Triad, Pentatonic, Major Scale
Week 12 - We continue with CAGED shapes. You will learn to build chords, arpeggios and scales from all 12 Major and minor keys. And you will have 5 different places you can play them.
- Workout 56 - CAGED Dm shape Triad, Pentatonic, minor Scale
- Workout 57 - CAGED A shape Triad, Pentatonic, Major Scale
- Workout 58 - CAGED Cm shape Triad, Pentatonic, minor Scale
- Workout 59 - CAGED E shape Triad, Pentatonic, Major Scale
- Workout 60 - CAGED Gm shape Triad, Pentatonic, minor Scale
Week 13 - Melodic Openings. You want to learn a song by ear. Where to start? Well now you have learned all the tools you need for learning songs. There is 2 common approaches learning songs and both are important but bring different solution to the problem. 1. Chord and Form Approach 2. Melodic and Riff based approach. We start with melodic openings which means we play a Major or minor chord and play any melody we ever can think of with the help of Major or minor chord and simple logic. This is the building time for your inner musicality and ability to play any song you hear in your head.
- Workout 61 - Melodic Openings in Major with 3rd interval
- Workout 62 - Melodic Openings in Major with 5th interval
- Workout 63 - Melodic Openings in Major with the root
- Workout 64 - Melodic Openings in Major with other note than root, 3rd or fifth.
- Workout 65 - Melodic Openings in Minor with root, minor 3rd and fifth.
Week 14 - Song forms. Here you will get a taste of the most important skill song learner can have = understanding patterns and forms. This means basically the ability to play, hear, understand and even sing as many chord patterns as possible. You can learn all the most important chord movements with another course called Pattern Toolbox Program.
- Workout 66 - Nursery Rhyme Turn Around
- Workout 67 - 1-4-5 , 12 Bar Blues
- Workout 68 - 1-5-6-4 , FAB 4
- Workout 69 - Down The Line in Major
- Workout 70 - Down The Line in Minor
Week 15 - Harmonizing melody. This is one very important skill you need especially if you know the melody of the song but cannot get the chords right. It is a combination of knowledge and ear which will take you to good chord changes. Also keep it basic first.
- Workout 71 - Harmonizing Random Melody Part 1
- Workout 72 - Harmonizing Random Melody Part 2
- Workout 73 - Harmonizing Famous Melody Part 1
- Workout 74 - Harmonizing Famous Melody Part 2
- Workout 75 - Harmonizing Famous Melody Part 3
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