"Ear training... is one of the most important things you can have as a musician."
"Practice using your ear, figuring out playing music you hear on your guitar just by listening."
"Relative pitch is like having a mental map of musical relationships, while perfect pitch is like built-in GPS."
"Unless you have perfect pitch, find reference notes and work on your ear training."
"Identifying where the one is in a song is very valuable when working out chords by ear."
"Understanding interval qualities like major, minor, perfect, augmented, and diminished helps in ear training."
"The most important thing to me is play by ear because you train your ear, you can play with anybody, anytime, anyplace."
"Hey look, they're pretty similar. It's probably the result of a lot of hours of doing simple ear training exercises on long drives and stuff, and you can do the same thing too."
"Ear training is massive. Being able to identify intervals is one of the most powerful tools that you can put in your bag."
"If you truly want the fastest way to climb your way to the top as an audio professional, training your ears is not optional."
"If there's a shortcut to training your ears, it's building that constant awareness of how the notes you're playing relate to the underlying harmony."
"The secret of ear training is in the feeling, the feeling that the notes themselves produce, or I should say, the relationships produce."
"Being able to identify an interval by ear being able to hear two different notes and to know what the gap is between them, what the interval is between them, is an incredibly valuable skill as a musician."
"Understanding that we can hear a distinction between certain intervals and how that's the same no matter what note you start on, a fifth is a perfect fifth, it's gonna sound like Star Wars no matter what note you start on."
"...experiment with patterns and rhythms this is mainly just about getting an initial feel for playing and exercises like this and experimentation are one of the things that's going to start developing your ear and being able to hear what it is that you're playing."
"You don't need Perfect Pitch to be able to play by ear."
"The blues is... always the same, and which notes go along with which chord. You want to trust your ear, but obviously someone like Hendrix, been playing the blues so long, he knows, 'That's my root.'"
"A dollar to you if you figured that out by ear."
"This kind of stuff is in my ear training course."
"I'm going to help you in this lesson by giving you some practical tips and some ear training exercises you can do to help you to be able to hear the key and train your ears to be faster so stay tuned."
"Train yourself to tune by ear; treat your ear like a muscle and exercise it."
"True ear training mastery is being able to just hear a song and play it."
"Being able to learn a song that any song that you like by ear without having to find a tab... that is a pretty mega skill."
"Learning to sing a solo is so important to getting the grammar of the music into your ear."
"Learning by reading music probably trumps learning by ear because of speed and accuracy."
"Learning chords by ear is an advanced skill and it's one that you can learn."
"This is really how you figure out things and become a better musician, is to develop your ear."
"It's a great way to build up your ear and also your technique in the difficult keys."
"Eventually it gets to that point where it just looks like you are playing by ear when really what you're doing is just pulling together lots and lots of bits of knowledge from those songs you learned and using them to get you through a new song that you're learning."
"Ear training gives you a kind of helix of sounds in your mind's eye that will enable you to short-circuit your writing."
"That is really going to help you with your ear training."
"Learning to play songs by ear is really, really important."
"Work on your ear training, specifically on your chord recognition and chord movement recognition."
"Developing these number associations that really apply to every single key is going to do a lot more for your ear in the long run."
"Composition is made possible when you mix good performance skills with ear training."
"As you train your ears through a lot of practice and dedicated ear training, you'll come to rely on and trust your ears more to determine how much and where enhancements are needed."
"The number system is important because it is literally the backbone for people who play by ear."
"If you're coming from the classical world where you'll just read sheet music or if you're a beginner to piano and you want to learn to play by ear, you have to get clear on what the number system is and how to use it."
"Ear training is the ability when you're training your ears or developing your ear training what you're doing is you're developing your sense of understanding what you're hearing."
"Learning to identify and sing intervals is the basis of ear training."
"Interval training is the single most important component of being able to play a Melody by ear."
"Ear training is all about understanding what you are hearing and being able to reproduce things that you're hearing by pitch and vice versa."
"It's fun to work on, and it requires a lot of listening, a lot of ear training."
"Learning songs by ear makes everything easier when you understand the patterns and the progressions that are in music."
"Chord progression recognition is going to help improve your ear because when you're learning songs by ear, you got to hear how chords work together."
"Try and do it all by ear, you can do this."
"Remember the three things you want to practice to get better at ear training are scales, triads, and intervals."
"So it's always very useful to learn some ear training."