Ever wonder why its sometimes easier to whistle or hum a tune than it is to play it without hunting for notes?
Guitar players dont like to admit it, but most of us play by sight instead of sound. Think about it, we all know what major scales look like, what a pentatonic looks like, but many of us cant hum or whistle either. When were transcribing, we often hunt for notes. Sometimes we cant even sing what were transcribing.
Traditional ear-training methods are no doubt valuable, but they generally dont apply directly to the guitar. Why? Because even if we can sing a melody perfectly, or hum the chord tones of a G7 flawlessly, we often cant play what we hear in our heads without hunting for notes.
So what? Well, wouldnt it be nice to play the guitar by ear? To just know how to play what you hear in your head? To play melodies without hunting for notes? To translate solo ideas from our inner ear right to our hands? When we sing, we dont care what our vocal chords look like. There are no patterns. We dont think about it. Rather, we know what the notes feel like in a way thats difficult to describe. Similarly, bugle players dont think about the exact placement of their lips and tongue when playing something by ear. They just know what certain sounds feel like.
The Ultimate Guitar Ear Trainer is designed to train guitarists how to play by ear instead of by sight. UGET works by developing our relative pitch. Having good relative pitch means that given a starting note, you could play a complete melody after hearing it just a couple of times without hunting for notes. Now, just like anything else in music, some of us are going to be better at this than others. Some people dont need a tool like the Ultimate Guitar Ear Trainer because theyre born with that ability. For the rest of us, we have to work at it. Hard.
How It Works:
1. Ultimate Guitar Ear Trainer creates a randomized melody.
2. It plays the melody and asks you to sing it.
3. Next, you sing it back with the computer.
4. Now, after seeing the first note, you play it on your guitar, trying not to hunt for notes.
5. Finally, Ultimate Guitar Ear Trainer plays the melody one last time, displaying the notes on the fretboard.
Its simple, fun, and very addictive. With numerous configuration options, you can take your ear training from simple to totally impossible. Just look at all these options and features:
1. Clear, visual fretboard display with easy-to-follow melody playback.
2. Practice timekeeper to keep you honest about how much time youre spending on ear training.
3. Easy to read instructions.
4. Choose any combination of 12 positions.
5. Choose from easy 1 beat to highly advanced 16-beat melodies.
6. Customize time between exercises, pause lengths, tempo, melody randomization, and even melody range.
7. Stretch Down check box to suit your style of playing.
8. Customize the exercises by choosing the steps you want.
9. UGET saves your configuration automatically when you close so you can pick up right where you left off.
