![]() ![]() She’ll start to play a church hymn and I’ll yell from across the house That sounds like so-and-so tune! which earns me a big SHUT UP! Now I can’t un-hear that!, as I chuckle evilly. I drive my wife crazy just picking up songs out of the blue, she’s college music trained but can’t really pick up anything by ear. ![]() Never learned to read Tab or sheet music well, at all. As my "ear " developed, I started learning songs by ear. Not much theory at first, that came later. The first couple weeks were SLOOOW, but the method was highly effective IMHO. We would study the chord charts, effect our fingering and strum along (I think the first song was, “Lemon Tree,” by Peter, Paul and Almond Joy, which everyone was familiar with – two chords, I believe). ![]() Junior high school guitar class, the teacher used an overhead projector (if you remember these, yer much too old) to shine chord charts on the wall, then sat in front of the class on a very tall stool and played “Monkey see, monkey do,”-style. ![]()
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