what the hell has happened to my ear?

[MacDaddy]

my musical ear that is. I've been playing a fair few years now, and have never had problems listening to stuff from CDs (etc) and working it out, but lately I've been checking out bands and learning stuff for auditions and it is such a struggle.

I spent a hour trying to figure out, what turned out to be a simple 4 note fill.

Maybe it's because I haven't been in a band for a while, and haven't gigged since July? Whatever it is, it's annoying and frustrating

[paul, the]

The story of paul's life. I'm bad enough to play the right note but not be able to tell it's the right note only to find out later that it actually was the right note, not a wrong one like I initially thought.

[chris_b]

Maybe you don't like the numbers. I learn the interesting stuff in 2 mins but numbers I really don't like take weeks!

[MacDaddy]

[quote name='chris_b' post='110674' date='Dec 29 2007, 08:25 PM']Maybe you don't like the numbers. I learn the interesting stuff in 2 mins but numbers I really don't like take weeks![/quote]

i take your point, but I do like the band and think the music is great.

[Dazzlovski]

I think you're right !
This happened to me too.
I was proud to say that in years gone by, I was 'deaf' to all but the bass melody. Paid no attention to lyrics, could bypass all the complicated keyboard stuff and nasally g***ar, and it was just like listening to a backing track for Drums and Bass...... even the L-O-W notes from a fiver came through with clarity.

I had a year or two off (long story and dreadful idea), and I too found that it was difficult to isolate the good stuff. Its just about come back now, but I've found a good set of headphones has helped too.

I really do think its something that improves with prolonged listening and playing ,and yours ears can be 're-booted' in time....

[Gazm]

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='110547' date='Dec 29 2007, 02:34 PM']my musical ear that is. I've been playing a fair few years now, and have never had problems listening to stuff from CDs (etc) and working it out, but lately I've been checking out bands and learning stuff for auditions and it is such a struggle.

I spent a hour trying to figure out, what turned out to be a simple 4 note fill.

Maybe it's because I haven't been in a band for a while, and haven't gigged since July? Whatever it is, it's annoying and frustrating [/quote]


Discovered jazz

Nice

[stingrayfan]

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='110547' date='Dec 29 2007, 02:34 PM']I spent a hour trying to figure out, what turned out to be a simple 4 note fill.[/quote]
Treat yourself to [url="http://www.ronimusic.com/amsldowin.htm"]this[/url] bit of software. It allows you to slow down MP3 and iTunes files to learn the songs. It's brilliant and well worth the £20 it costs. It even lets you shift the pitch up and down by semitones so you can learn stuff in different keys to the original. Hope that helps.

[aj5string]

If your gonna spend money on software to help you, go for transcribe! its only an extra fiver over the slow downder thing, but adds loads of features (slows down, picks out certain instruments, can loop sections, transposes, can adjust pitch (so you can make dodgy recordings in key), etc....)

[MacDaddy]

cheers guys, but I've already got something that can slow down, cut sections, etc.

Hopefully as Dazzlovski says, I can get re-booted.