Monday, December 7, 2009

[HeavyMetalHeaven] Play Guitar By Ear - Musical Form And Content

If you happen to ask a person who can play the guitar by ear ..."how they do it", they most likely will be unable to tell you. How ever, whether they know it or not they are conforming to certain rules of musical 'form' and 'content'.
All successful songs are built on solid musical foundations, these underlying musical principles make it easy for the listening audience to remember the piece. By the way, all unsuccessful writers either chose to ignore these principles or don't know them - that's probably a clue!
Music form:
Music form is the framework to the piece, it's the skeleton upon which the musician builds their composition.
Since people have, two arms and two legs it's only natural for us to want to have our music in an even mathematical format in order for us to clap, tap, dance and march to the music.
The eight bar song form:
The best place to start is with the eight bar song form. Whilst there are a number of popular song formats, the eight bar song structure will be ideal for developing our ability to play guitar by ear.
Why the eight bar format?, I hear you ask ... since we are trying to stir up that part of our brain that contains our memory for sounds, we will be starting with simple tunes that go back to our childhood. Most of these childrens songs are eight bars in length.
Before you head for the nearest exit at the mention of childrens songs, please keep in mind that we are learning to play by ear, which is really a trick of your memory, if you can't play simple eight bar tunes with two or three chords ... there'll be trouble ahead with more complex pieces.
Four beats to the bar:
Just as we have discovered the eight bar song format as being the most popular song format to begin with when learning to play by ear, we will also find that the majority of popular songs contain four beats to the bar.
Here is a sample eight bar song form template, each bar contains four beats, each beat equals one tap of your foot.
| //// | //// | //// | //// |
| //// | //// | //// | //// |
Notice the layout of the template with four bars to each line, this makes it easy to see (and hear) repeated patterns, which ultimately makes high speed memorization and recall ... easy.
In the above example, the single vertical lines are bar lines and the oblique slash lines represent each tap of your foot.
Every sound you have every heard is stored in your memory, our job is to learn how to be able to recall, identify and catalogue these sounds.Once, you know how to do this learning to play guitar by ear will be a simple process.

Make Beats on Computer Fast and Easy: http://www.sonicapro.tk/


------------------------------------

For MetalHeads Who Want To Have there say!
Long Live The Power Of METAL!!!
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HeavyMetalHeaven/

<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HeavyMetalHeaven/join
(Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
HeavyMetalHeaven-digest@yahoogroups.com
HeavyMetalHeaven-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
HeavyMetalHeaven-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

No comments:

Post a Comment