Guitar Ear Training Course Goes Live Today

I'm probably jumping the gun (as usual) but the Free Guitar Ear Training Course - it's called Perfect Your Pitch, by the way - will be available from the Downloads section of Advanced Guitar Player.So go to the site and Download it NOW!

It's been programmed in Guitar Pro 6 and is the first instalment of a more ambitious project that I'll hopefully end up charging but at the moment I'd just grateful if you'd log on to the Forum on Advanced Guitar Player and make a comment so that I can work on improvements,

This part will help you to learn how to recognise and sing the seven degrees of the Major Scale. All the exercises are in C Major so by the end of the course you should be able to sing C, D, E, F, G, A and B at sight. Future instalments will get you transcribing solos and applying this skill to other keys but it's best to start with the basics.

The reason why I've created the course are firstly because a lot of people study on their own these days and if you don't have a teacher it's really difficult to know whether you're getting the notes right or not - having everything programmed as a tab file in Guitar Pro means that you can read the score and listen to it at the same time if you want. (That's why I love Guitar Pro 6!!!).

Secondly, every class I've ever had on ear training and sight reading has been taught to me by a piano player - great musicians but they just think differently from us guitarists. One of the ways I get to transcribe music when I'm sitting on a bus or underground train is by picturing my fretboard in my head. I listen to the music, sing it myself, work what the notes are and then picture it on the fretboard - by the time I get to the rehearsal or gig I've pretty much learnt it.

A pretty useful skill, don't you think. Anyway, go to Advanced Guitar Player, Download it and enjoy!