Where do you go to learn songs?

[ledzep59]

Where do you go to learn songs (if you can't learn it by ear, trial/error, etc.) on the web?

 

If the song is simple I can usually figure it out by ear after I get the key, or just hack it out. If there is layers of harmony or modulation, I will start to have trouble. Otherwise, I just google the song and look through several duds before finding a reliable tab. I also use youtube because you can just watch the artist's fingers in a lot of videos.

[mcmurray]

Check out 'guitar pro', 'powertab' or 'tuxguitar'. They allow you to hear the tabs first so you know if it's good or not.

 

Ultimate Guitar has a sh!tload of free guitar pro files for just about everything.

[kellyedwards]

There are many sources of free online lessons in the internet, you can try guitartricks... After that you will enjoy playing that gibson les pauls

 

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[pete c]

i use guitar pro, no need to get power tab because you can import power tabs into guitar pro.

[RichCI]

I just go to Google to look up tabs. We don't play very many covers and, when we do, they're not note-for-note so the tab doesn't have to be totally accurate, it just has to make it faster and easier to get down the basics.

[daveinspain]

Lots of times I'll go on youtube and type in Song Title lesson... Substitute the name of the song you want to learn of course with the word lesson written after it and you can usually find someone doing a lesson on how to play it.

[NeoConMan]

Where do you go to learn songs

In front of my stereo - in my underwear.

 

[NeoConMan]

I'll look up tabs now and then, but I find many of them to be inaccurate.

 

Best bet is a few of the smokin' hot players I know. ONE of them is bound to know most any song I think of.

[ChanMan]

Google.

[Californiaman]

Woodshed.

[LPguitarman]

Mostly from my CD Player (by ear). Occasionally from Youtube. Sometimes I just sound it out by memory of what the song sounds like in my head and then if I get it close, I listen to it over and over again to get the parts I missed the first time.

[Shnate McDuanus]

Over the past few months I've gotten pretty good at learning songs by ear. Usually if I can't do it on my own, my teacher can help me out. Usually if that doesn't work, I try to find chord charts (not tab, because I don't try to copy other players' parts) online and work from there. But yeah, I can usually figure it out as long as I can determine the key, and if I can tell clearly when the changes are. Sometimes it helps to listen for the III instead of the I.

 

Of course there are things that I simply can't figure out. Sometimes it's good to just do what you can on it, leave it alone for a week, and then come back to it. Playing, running through scales and arpeggios, doing all of the "rote" stuff helps too, even if it's not necessarily a whole lot of fun. I think that every time we play a scale, a cadence, what have you, we internalize a little more information about harmony. My best advice for ear training, then, is to play a lot, and to listen intently to what you play. Sorry if that all comes off as a little stupid, but it sounded right to me.