Covid 19 lock down game

With most of us locked down and getting more bored by the day I thought I would post a little game. The vid will give the outline.

The outline is here

Outlne

The song I am using is in the link:

Id love you want me by Lobo

Stay safe!

Looks cool. And I'm thinking on creating augmented reality app to learn guitar chords. Maybe AR firm like Skywell Software would hire me as AR developer then

Originally Posted by: William MG

With most of us locked down and getting more bored by the day I thought I would post a little game. The vid will give the outline.

The outline is here

Outlne

The song I am using is in the link:

Id love you want me by Lobo

Stay safe!

Edit: if you don't know what transposing is, it is listening to a song and breaking out the chords, notes etc. by ear.

More accurately, transposing is playing a piece in a different key; shifting notes and chords in the same interval as the original, e.g., C - Am - F - G to G - Em - C - D.

Thanks for the clarification John.

It looks like the word I should be using is transcribing

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semi proud of myself. Like you William, I have a terrible ear for music. That's partly why I subscribe to GT. I'd never be able to learn a song by ear, I need to be shown. However, I could tell almost immediately that the opening chord was played using a capo. It sounded like an open chord, but was way to high. I lost patience and don't own a capo, so looked up the internet. I think it's placed on the 3rd fret. Now try and find the chord. :)

For doing this transcribing it is more easy to think off the numeral steps instead of chords and then find the key and fill in the chords like I-IV-V-I and then let's say the key is A then the chords would be A-D-E-A. If I listen to a song I always try to figyre out the steps off the chords by numbers.

But hey, find a more difficult song then this one, these rock pop songs from the 60's and 70ties are almost all the same easy progressions, what about the next on; Poppa Chuby - Nobody loves you when you're down and out, that is one to break your teeth on.

Herman

Originally Posted by: Poundhound

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semi proud of myself. Like you William, I have a terrible ear for music. That's partly why I subscribe to GT. I'd never be able to learn a song by ear, I need to be shown. However, I could tell almost immediately that the opening chord was played using a capo. It sounded like an open chord, but was way to high. I lost patience and don't own a capo, so looked up the internet. I think it's placed on the 3rd fret. Now try and find the chord. :)

Thanks Pound! I hadn't thought of this. I do own a capo and will try it this morning.

You mean you just want the chords to that song? songs like these we played along with our band in in usually under half a minute. The key to this is ear training, no matter which instrument you play.

Just let me know if you want the chords; with our without capo

Herman

Thanks Herman, yes I want the chords but am trying to develop my ear so I can find them myself. I saw the importance of this when I hired a local player to help me with some things and Scott, like yourself, is able to pickup on a tune practically instantly and just start jamming. As I like to jam with others, not having this skill is a real hinderance. So ear training is big on my agenda.

And since we are all locked away over Covid 19 I thought I would put it out there for other beginners as an exercise to kill some time.

Originally Posted by: William MG

And since we are all locked away over Covid 19 I thought I would put it out there for other beginners as an exercise to kill some time.

Very cool idea. Way beyond my level as a rank beginner, but it is the kind of thing I need to start trying to learn.

Originally Posted by: DavesGuitarJourney

Very cool idea. Way beyond my level as a rank beginner, but it is the kind of thing I need to start trying to learn.

You should give it a try Dave. Now that I know to put a capo on the 3rd fret it is making a lot more sense. I believe I have the 1st 3 chords now thanks to Pounds tip.

If I am right in what I believe they are, these opening 3 chords are covered in the 5 Chord Power Pack lessons.

I think I have got the first three chords but I can't try it tonight because my wife is trying to sleep, so... I will try tomorrow. That's a really nice song, I am surprised that I don't remember ever hearing it.

Well, I am not close at all. Have tried with and without a capo, and different positions with the capo. I don't know exactly how to adjust the chord shapes with the capo so I would have to do a little work to learn how to make the chords I still think may be right. My ears are pretty tone deaf, so this will take a long time to learn to hear the music and understand the chords as I listen. It is a good learning exercise, Bill.

Try a G chord for the opening chord Dave. I'm pretty sure that is what it opens with. Just think of the capo as the nut and make the G accordingly.

Here is a link to a tutorial on the song. It may be the one Pound came across

https://youtu.be/Nb1872Dg_54

first off all if you want to recognize chord scale steps make sure you know all the 12 major, minor and 7 chords, then learn ear training by starting to listen to old time rock and roll and see if you can pick up the chord steps there ( only 3 chords most off the time ). Don't try to recognize the exact chord unless you are born with absolute hearing, it won't work, one day you'll be able to guess the chord and after a few weeks you'll be way off, like I said before; try to recognize the scale steps ( explained in roman numerals , think Anders, not sure ) then learn intervals and how to recognize them by ear.

Don't start to run before you learned to crawl, got the idea that people here want to do things experienced musicians are doing while they barely know a few chords.

Herman

it's only a little game Herman. Seems to have caught your ire for some reason. Guitar, to me at least is about relaxation. I don't get stressed out about it. Thanks for the lecture, your just pushing it to the wrong audience.

No agrevation here, only want to show people the way it works and how you can learn to do this and that is learn to recognize chord steps and not the actual chords 'cause that is almost imposible and even difficult for people with absolute hearing.

Herman

Well as I mentioned in the outline, the exercise was suggested by Gary and I think it was a good one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=132&v=eTuYduVXCaM&feature=emb_logo

look at these kids, they have absolute hearing, makes one jalous.

Herman