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Training your guitar ears Watching great musicians jam is one of the most magical experiences that the ordinary mortal can have the pleasure of witnessing. They seem to be able to follow each other through key changes, mood and tempo swings almost as if they're reading each other's mind. The truth is that they're not magical - gifted definitely, but in the large part the gift is a learned skill. It's the ability to recognize the tone and pitch of the note instantly with ears trained to do it. So how do you learn to recognize pitch? The first step is to make sure that you always play in tune - not just with yourself - AT CONCERT PITCH! This may mean investing in a guitar tuner. Take it from me it's the best investment you will ever make. Once you've got your tuner, make sure that when you tune up make sure that you can hear those six notes as you tune them - you want to know what those six notes sound like. It's the first building block to successful ear training. From there it's a step by step process of recognising how different notes and chords sound. Its a gradual process and the key is to concentrate on what you're doing, by concentrate I mean really listen to the chords and notes that you play. I've even gone to the step of recording chord progressions and playing them in the car over and over again, with a voice over saying "G chord" and playing several bars then Cm chord and playing several bars - its probably not as entertaining as your current music selection but it helps you learn to hear and that's one of the key ingredients to really being able to play the guitar