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Whatever your instrument is, a warm-up routine is an important part of practice.

Besides the obvious intention of getting “warmed-up,” as in a mental and physical preparation for playing, one of the great advantages of a well-structured routine is the application of fundamentals.

The focus of a warm-up routine in ear training is nearly the exact same as with an instrument. While there’s really no physical preparation for ear training, there certainly is a mental preparation that is necessary.

It’s also a great time to work on fundamentals—wide-ranging exercises that benefit multiple aspects of ear training.

Learn some great warm-up strategies in this article!

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So you’ve learned how to play 3-chord songs and 4-chord songs by ear.

Now it’s time to move to the next level! Instead of simply strumming “1, 2, 3, 4” we’re going to learn some more advanced techniques to make your playing sound great.

We’ve found the 5 best tutorial videos for playing 3- and 4-chord songs in compelling ways. These demo videos include not only the 3- and 4-chord tricks, they’ll also teach you rhythm and strumming techniques, and advanced fingerpicking riffs.

You will not only improve your guitar skills, but you’ll also expand your repertoire of pop, rock and bluegrass songs.

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Ear training can greatly accelerate the process of learning a new instrument.

Part of learning an instrument is physical: teaching your fingers where to go when, and refining your timing and precision as you manipulate the instrument.

However, the other big aspect to learning an instrument is mental, and most of that mental aspect is common across instruments.

This is the “listening skills” and “musical understanding” which lie beneath instrumental skill, and once you have developed it for one instrument, you will find it transfers easily to other instruments.

That may seem vague and abstract.

Here we share some practical examples.

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Wouldn’t it be awesome to be one of those guitarists who just shows up and jams?

No sheet music, no chord charts, no endless YouTube tutorials…

How do they magically seem to know and play every song—even songs they never heard before?

Well, if you think it’s because they spend 25 hours a day, fingers-to-the-fretboard, memorizing every song under the sun, you may be surprised!

While they may practice a good deal, their calloused fingers are often matched by well-honed ears.

Read on to discover why your ears are the key to true freedom on the fretboard and the essential areas to study if you want that seemingly-magical ability to play any song on guitar.

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It’s so frustrating. As a musician, you desperately want to make progress on your instrument. You put in hours in the practice room, working your fingers (or lips) until they’re raw.

And by the end of practice, you feel like you’ve made progress.

But then something happens…

You come to the practice room the next day, and it’s as if you didn’t practice at all. As if your brain has forgotten everything you learned.

It drives you nuts. Makes you want to quit.

We’ve got some really good news. The struggle is real. Every musician encounters it. Every musician finds themselves losing the progress they made in the practice room. The problem isn’t you…

In this post, we’re going to propose a better, different way to practice that will produce more measurable results and prevent you from losing so much progress.

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Ear Training will make you a better musician.

It is something that musicians tend to either:

Do, reluctantly,
Maybe because their music course or instrument exams require it.
or
Ignore completely.
Thinking it’s completely separate from instrument learning,
associated with music theory, or for expert musicians only.

But ear training is something which should be core to every musician’s development from the very beginning—and not just “because some teacher said so!”

All those soft intangible things which distinguish an average musician from a fantastic and inspiring one – they’re all in the ear!

In this article we share 10 powerful reasons to make ear training part of your music learning.

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You CAN write songs without music theory!

If you’ve wished to write your own incredible songs but felt held back because you don’t know music theory, fret no longer.

In this article we’ll show you how you can write your own songs even with zero theory knowledge.

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Have you wondered how some guitarists seem to just know what notes to play?

They can pick out a tune by ear, play along with a song they’ve only just heard and improvise killer solos without any need for sheet music, tab, or fretboard patterns.

How do they do it?

The answer is that they have a well-trained musical ear, and by doing simple ear training exercises on guitar you can hone your own ears in the same way.

Here are 5 reasons every guitarist should learn intervals

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College ear training classes in aren’t always perfect.

In this article Joseph DuBose shares his experience with a professor left him frustrated and bewildered.

However, personally experiencing a horrible approach to teaching ear training has helped him to discover some basic principles that have helped him to not only make up lost ground, but to continually develop his musical ear.

Read on to learn from Joseph’s experience and avoid ear training frustration.

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