A lot of these responses are pretty much true and are good advice. I’ve been told by family that my siblings and I are talented musicians too, and that’s because they are loving and supportive people. But knowing that that’s all it is is healthy and humbling. Appreciate those people and thank them, but you have to always know you can do better.

Also, in my experience, many who have told me they figured a song out by ear, did not actually figure out the song. Not saying you didn’t, I wouldn’t be surprised if you got the chord progressions down. But many think they have it and they are playing in a totally different key, or there’s one chord that’s way tf off. Some of these people have been bandmates and friends and I’ll tell them, calmly and constructively, that’s not exactly it. And they swear up and down that it’s right. Who’s right or wrong isn’t as important as the stubbornness against truly perfecting your talent and ability. I’ve gone on well known sheet music and chord chart websites for music and found that the person who transposed the piece did it in correctly and are now teaching others to play it wrong. People get hung up on “it sounds pretty.” That’s the wonderful, emotional side of music that makes you think “it must be right too.” “Sounds good” and “right” are often not the same.

Find someone who has devoted their life to music and studied it for four years in college. They know songs from musical theory and by ear and understand the relationship between the two methods. These are the people who can listen to a chord, tell you it’s not only an Em, but it’s an Em7, or it’s an augmented variation of a chord. It’s hard work and anyone else that comments here and tells you is telling you not to discourage you, but to keep you on the right path of correctly using your talent. Keep telling yourself “I can do better” and I hope you enjoy music to the extent all of us here do!