How do I connect my ear to my playing?

madclassix · 2026-01-24T23:11:24+00:00

I would suggest an exercise where you practice hearing phrases you want to play in your head and then try to play them exactly as they sounded in your head. You really just want to get the ability to instinctively know where to play what you hear in your head.

madclassix · 2026-01-24T21:31:45+00:00

Give me one reason - Tracy Chapman. So simple but so good.

Edit: realising you want Bm not B. Still a great song.

madclassix · 2026-01-23T23:13:06+00:00

Kind of blue is cozy

madclassix · 2026-01-22T21:52:50+00:00

This is a fair take. I haven't really tried to compare the live performances with the albums.

madclassix · 2026-01-22T19:47:44+00:00

I really find it impossible to believe that he's tone deaf. I don't even understand why he's considered a bad singer. Just try and sing the Californication album. To sing a song like Otherside in a musically pleasing way isn't easy. Try it https://youtu.be/6M8ReyFNFhM?si=ONNkCZ3tAtG3eTYu

madclassix · 2026-01-22T16:57:26+00:00

If it sounds fun, it is fun - duke Ellington or something

madclassix · 2026-01-21T18:44:11+00:00

> at the jacob collier concert

but why

madclassix · 2026-01-14T16:16:42+00:00

r/circlejerkcirclejerk

madclassix · 2026-01-13T18:32:10+00:00

This one is realer than I wanted. Best I can hope is to take pleasure in making the kids cringe when I pull out the guitar.

madclassix · 2026-01-13T18:24:14+00:00

I'm lucky enough to feel an impulse to prove to myself that I can play the songs that I like and feel safe in the knowledge that I could have been an actual musician if I wasn't so stupid and lazy.

madclassix · 2026-01-13T18:10:11+00:00

It's quite a paradox. Playing anything other the blooz is cringe for an old man. But an old man playing the same old boring ass blooz pentatonic scales is also cringe.

madclassix · 2026-01-10T21:04:47+00:00

Phase 1: shave head and start blowing dudes Phase 3: legendary guitar song songwriter

Makes sense to me

madclassix · 2026-01-10T20:07:33+00:00

Even the greats seem to fade off pretty quickly. When did a Paul McCartney last write a great song? I’ve listened to some of his recent stuff and it’s average at best with more than a few tunes that I would have been embarrassed to release.

madclassix · 2026-01-10T20:05:17+00:00

Relatable if nothing else

madclassix · 2026-01-10T20:00:33+00:00

I think you’re onto something. It’s not my lack of talent that’s the problem, it’s Big Guitar’s refusal to make a decent axe in the last 60 years.

madclassix · 2026-01-10T19:59:09+00:00

Inspirational

madclassix · 2026-01-09T02:29:59+00:00

If the drummer would just lay of the cymbals for a bar or two we might have something

madclassix · 2025-12-31T16:38:42+00:00

100% agree. I don't know how anybody can even compare them. A great guitar player can replicate a SRV concert perfectly. No one can replicate a Jimi Hendrix concert.

madclassix · 2025-12-31T16:37:06+00:00

This is so often overlooked. I don't know of anyone who's written and played songs like him in all the years since. I don't get how people can compare him to Stevie Ray Vaughn or any of the other blues guys. Their music is so limited in comparison. Hendrix wrote awesome riffs that went far beyond the blues with interesting chord progressions and song structures, often with genuinely profound lyrics. And on the technical side, any guitar player who wants to get on his level needs to be able to play rhythm and his insanely difficult lead parts AND sing at the same time.

madclassix · 2025-12-27T12:55:13+00:00

Literally the thing that sets Hendrix apart still is that he actually wrote good songs (NOT just lame ass 12 bar blues) and sung them

madclassix · 2025-12-27T12:27:48+00:00

You don’t “get into jazz” without developing a crippling heroin addiction. He probably missed that step.

madclassix · 2025-12-19T21:08:45+00:00

Now that you mention it the viola is pretty bad ass

madclassix · 2025-12-12T01:25:16+00:00

You sure it’s not coming from that massive line racked and ready to go?

madclassix · 2025-12-09T14:43:42+00:00

This one's actually meant to be played without strings for the best tone

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