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Terry Srader

 

From:
Georgia
Post  Posted 10 May 2004 7:24 pm    
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what is the best "exercise(s)" to train my ear for playing steel?
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CrowBear Schmitt


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Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
Post  Posted 10 May 2004 10:59 pm    
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i would suggest calling out to yourself the notes as you play them
either by number system or note value of key you're playing in
you can do this when constructing cords , playing melodies, or playing scales
as you do this more and more your ear should be "hearing" the notes you call and thus being trained to hear thirds, fifths, roots, maj7, augs, dims, flatted 5s, aug11, etc....
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Jerry Clardy

 

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El Paso, Texas, USA * R.I.P.
Post  Posted 11 May 2004 3:00 am    
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Joey Ace started a thread in the Music section of the Forum related to this:
http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum10/HTML/003974.html
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Ken Fox


From:
Nashville GA USA
Post  Posted 21 May 2004 11:22 am    
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http://www.good-ear.com/servlet/EarTrainer

Try the above, it's free and a lot fun.
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Jerry Overstreet


From:
Louisville Ky
Post  Posted 21 May 2004 12:51 pm    
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Ken, thanx for posting the link man! Good stuff! It is a lot of fun! JO
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Dr. Hugh Jeffreys

 

From:
Southaven, MS, USA
Post  Posted 21 May 2004 2:25 pm    
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www.jazzbooks.com Jamey Aebersold (New Albany, Ind.) has many book/cd combinations written by the best jazz artists on the globe. Good luck, HJ
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Susan Alcorn (deceased)


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Baltimore, MD, USA
Post  Posted 22 May 2004 8:57 am    
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There are a couple of things that I have found helpful with ear training as far as hearing pitch and playing the steel guitar in tune.

For hearing pitch, piano tuning methods are wonderful.

For playing the guitar in tune, I heard Lloyd Green play something years and years ago at a steel guitar convention where he would play a note on one of the higher pitched strings, then slide up to that same not on the next string, then repeating, and then you can do an arpeggio to up to that same note to get back to the high string, and keep going up. Perhaps I'm not describing it well, but it's a cool sound and a great exercise for intonation.

Best of luck.

-- Susan
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Leon Grizzard


From:
Austin, Texas, USA
Post  Posted 24 May 2004 8:24 am    
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I know you have all seen ads for the David Burge Perfect Pitch course. He also makes a relative pitch training class thats pretty good.
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Wayne Franco

 

From:
silverdale, WA. USA
Post  Posted 24 May 2004 4:42 pm    
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The Good doctor is right. Jamie Aebersold is great. In his biggining book Anyone can play jazz he has well know songs you know for every interval you can think of.....for instance. Somewhere over the rainbow...the first 2 notes are an octive. I think that is one good way to learn.

[This message was edited by W Franco on 24 May 2004 at 05:43 PM.]

[This message was edited by W Franco on 24 May 2004 at 05:44 PM.]

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