Originally Posted by: hsnoeckx

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

Hi Herman, I appreciate that you are trying to get folks to be realistic with expectations and to be patient with ourselves. I know that I personally struggle with being patient. I constantly feel like I should be improving much faster than I am, and it is frustrating. Having said that, I like what Bill is doing here and I know it is beyond my ability at this point, but, I think it's a good way to expose ourselves (hey now!) to the idea of ear learning. [br][br]

As for trying to run before we can walk, I am not even crawling yet! I am trying to master just sitting up without having any external support! I hope to advance to the crawling phase of my guitar journey soon, though![br][br]

Stay healthy and stay sane.

Dave...

ps. You do make a good point that I almost missed. Even if I as a beginner can't identify the specific chords, it is very useful to learn to identify the progressions. So I might not know "that's a G going to D to Am but he has a capo" but it's possible that I might be able to hear "he's playing I to V to ii chord progression." I think that's part of what you were saying anyway?