Is it enough to just learn a song by numbers by memorizing “this finger goes here and then there”. Or is it important to understand the mechanics of how a song works.
If you’ve gone the DIY route with anything in your life, you know what a time waster that can be. Just jumping into a difficult task without a good game plan can get you lost and frustrated very quickly.
In any important undertaking, getting some good preliminary direction is like gold. It can save you tons of time and frustration. Not to mention, boost the chances of your success a ton!
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Yes the whole song. Not just a few of the cool parts. Just learning parts of songs can be fun but you are stopping short of a great reward.
Having a good collection of songs that you can play at a moments notice, is a very valuable thing.This is currency down the road for getting in bands, getting gigs, building a solo show.
It’s very hard to play with other musicians only knowing parts of songs. And yes, they may be cool, but you need more than just a lick or phrase to take a listener from one place in time to another.
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So even if you are just starting out, it’s never too early to collect a repertoire of songs. Even the simplest song of them all had a place and time to be shared with an audience.
Learning complicated songs can be very frustrating and take a long time. Giving yourself an impossible deadline to learn a tough song is never a good idea.
To really succeed, you should work up to that level. Give yourself a few quick wins with easy songs. Then, gradually work on ever harder songs. Pick the next one that is mostly at your level, but with one or two challenging parts to work on.
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This skill of learning songs doesn’t happen overnight. You can’t pull a Matrix and just download mad song learning skills at the push of a button. So, stay close to your learning level. Push yourself a little at a time.
One surefire way to derail learning a complete song is to start with the performance. Let me tell you what I mean by this. I’ve seen this a lot and it can be fun, but it generally leads to nowhere.
Working on the tone of the song before you can play it is a big detour from the intended result of learning the song. Trying to get your guitar to sound just like or close to the original tone is not a bad thing, just in its place.
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Before you start plugging in those overdrive pedals, think about really being able to play and understand the song. Spend this initial time really understanding it.
I’ve found that, not only my students, but I’m guilty of this as well. I’ll listen to the song, fire up my amp and start turning knobs. The next thing you know, ½ hour has gone by tweaking things.
And then, once I would get close to what I wanted to sound like on the song, It becomes jamming time. Before I knew it, An hour or two may have passed and I didn’t know the song any better at all.
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We all have restraints on our time with the guitar. By putting the learning first, you get the desired information in your head as early as possible.
Giving your mind more time to process and remember the chord progressions and melodies. There will always be time to work on your tone, here and there.
Songs make sense. There are reasons why a composer makes the decisions that he or she makes. They are important, and lucky for you, these decisions are repeatable.
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The way a certain melody fits over a certain chord progressions can be something very unique. A little bit of music theory is all you need to be able to recognize the basics of a song.
And once you understand the Why of a song, you can use parts of it in your own songs or lead lines. You aren’t just learning the one song, you are learning ideas that can be used over and over in many different situations that don’t sound like the original song.
So, take a little time to pay attention to how the cords go from one to the other and what scale lines are played over them. You will be glad you did!
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First things first, you need to know what you are in for. A solid idea of the structure of the song can help you focus on the best things to spend your time on.
You are now coming at this from a different perspective. By learning this song, we need to take the magic and mystery out of it. We need to realize that there are common things being used and assembled to create this thing. These are things that you can definitely learn.
This can put some people off. Some think that by picking apart the song you are ruining it. And you are in a way. You definitely won’t think of it the same way you did the first time you heard it.
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But, I can tell you that the thrill of listening to a song is one thing, but the thrill of playing that song for someone else, and being a part of the experience is something greater.
The next thing to do is to find the tonal center of the song. The key. At first, this can be a little frustrating, but you can get the hang of it fairly quickly.
For most songs, if the first chord and the last chord are the same, you can pretty much bet that the name of the chord is the key of the song.
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It’s the note that you can rest on. It’s the note that that song could finish on. If you stop on that note or chord and go home you would feel finished.
For those who are struggling finding the key, I’ve seen some who just play up and down the low E string until they find the note that sounds like it matches the most with the song.
Understanding the basic structure of the song is next. Songs are broken up into sections, and these sections could have similarities or differences depending on their function.
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Understanding the form of a song will give you a plan of attack and you can keep yourself from getting overwhelmed by working one section at a time.
What I like to do is print out the tab, chord sheet, or lyric sheet, and mark the different sections as I listen to the song.
How are we going to do this. What is the best method to use. It can be different for everyone. Someone who had a good ear may find it easiest to just listen to a song and make a quick chord chart. Or, for a new guitarist, a video that shows each step to take may make more sense. Let’s go through a bunch of the different ways that you might try to learn a song.
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Let’s go back, way back before we had the internet. Records, tapes, Cd’s, and the radio were all you had to hear your favorite songs.
You would listen to the song, focus on the part you wanted to know, figure out the key, split the part into sections, and write it down. This is the toughest way to do it, but, if you can get good at this, you are golden. You’ll be able to hear a song and instantly visualize it on the guitar. This is a skill that is worth your while to develop, and something I plan on going over in future episodes.
Back in the day, you would go to the local guitar store and there would be sheet music for sale. They got better over time, but early on, a lot of the guitar sheet music for sale was really just rebranded piano music.
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Totally not helpful for the guitarist. I was burned by buying thess a few times. At some point they got better when they switched over to tablature, but a lot of the time, those didn’t sound much like the recording either.
The one way that usually gave the most results was help from the guitar community. I remember an interview with Paul McCartney, who said something to the effect that they would ride a bus all over liverpool, just to hunt down someone who knew a fancy chord.
Getting together with guitar playing friends, was always fun and informative. Sharing what you knew and learning new things from other guitarists, was often more valuable than buying new music or gear.
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Although, in my opinion, learning by ear is still tough to beat, we have many different ways to learn songs today that require a lot less effort (than bus rides all over the city).
Tablatureis shorthand for the guitar. It is six lines that represent the six strings of the guitar. You will find a bunch of numbers on the lines that represent a certain fret on the guitar.
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