Everything we do in music is based on what we are able to hear. If you have music in your head that you want to play, then you need to be able to
know what it is you are hearing. If you are learning music, you need to hear through a lot of different sounds to find what it is you need to play
on guitar.

The ear is essential in everything involving music. From composition to recording engineers, the ear is the most important thing for a musician to
develop. However, guitarists have a very visual instrument where they can see patterns and chord shapes. This becomes a crutch that they rely on
and it kills their ear.

You will gain some skills over time with experience to a small degree but to really make a difference in your music it needs to be developed on
its own.

Most courses for ear training are vague and apply to all instruments. While this makes the publisher more money, some instruments are left out in
the cold in certain areas of development. Being a guitarist, I am going to give an ear training course for guitarists specifically.

Imagine a world where you can play anything you hear in your mind. Imagine that you can listen to a song once and be able to play it with a band.
This cuts down on time learning a song and buying tabs or notation. This means more money for you and more time to work on other things. There is
not one bad thing about developing your ear. The more you work on it, the better musician you will become overall. It will make your lessons and
practice worth much more because you can better understand what is going on and it will even help you hone in on your technique because your newly
tuned ears will be able to detect subtle flaws in your playing you have been deaf to all this time.

Ear training is fun and exciting. There is no better time to start than right now and you are going to thank yourself for taking some time out to
do it because it will save you lots of time on everything else you will ever do with music later on.

Knowing this, it is now your choice to:

Know exactly what you are hearing in your head and be able to play it on your first try OR fumble around with your fingers playing the same boring
things over and over and never getting the great ideas out.

Listen to a song on the way to a band practice and being able to play it and dictate everyone's parts to them without ever needing to practice it
yourself OR spending lots of valuable time learning a song by finding incorrect tabs online or even spending money on a tab book that may also be
incorrect.

Hear all of the mistakes in the songs you play and correct them instantly OR Be deaf to the fact you have been playing things wrong all this time
and never correct them.

Control the music completely OR Let the music control you and randomly occur from your fingers by way of finger memory, visual memory, or luck.

Now I am sure you would select to have a great ear and be a better musician and guitarist. The problem is, why are you not already?

Are you too lazy to train your ear?
Are you thinking that you are born with an ear and it can't be developed?
Are you happy being a non musician who happens to play guitar?
Maybe you never even heard of ear training?

The laziness one would strange because you would have to be super lazy to not even be able to ear train. You can do it laying down in bed with
your eyes closed. While eating. Perhaps you tell yourself it will take too much time and you would rather spend more time practicing guitar. I can
understand that one 100%. However, you are in a bad cycle by doing this. The more time you practice guitar without having an ear, the longer it
takes to practice new music or lessons. If you trained your ear, you would be able to get more out of practicing and spend less time doing it
anyway.

You are not born with a better or worse ear. Your neuro fibers do however start plotting a course at a very early age and hearing and identifying
sounds is a big part in overall brain development. It can be any sort of sounds for the most part. I have seen many long and drawn out lectures
about learning itself. How the brain develops and how to maintain focus and boost memory. Some people may have a better ear because of what they
do and how long they have been doing it. For instance a violin player will have a better ear than a guitarists simply because the guitar has frets
and we guitarists don't ever need to use our ears to create a pitch. We just press down on a specific fret and it happens for us. You can develop
your ear an amazing amount with very little work and it will pay off in a huge way.

If you are happy messing around on guitar and don't plan on really getting anywhere with it that is fine. You are having fun on the instrument and
that is great. If you want to have even more fun then ear training will also provide that.

Overall, there is no good excuse not to ear train. Especially for guitarists. Other than drummers they have the worst ears of all common
instruments. It isn't your fault though, It is because guitar is very visual and physical. I am a visual person and it makes sense that I play
guitar. However, once you open your mind the slightest bit and let your ears focus into the music, you will become a much better musician. Guitar
players are usually crap musicians. They over play, they walk on other musicians parts, they keep turning themselves up louder and louder and they
make tons of excuses while simply sucking because they never put in honest work on their instrument and music itself. Just the littlest bit of

knowledge will open them right up to lots of new things and just about every person takes pleasure in that when it happens.

I am a lazy person, I procrastinate, I would rather watch movies or play video games...but I had something amazing happen once that changed me
just a little bit. I practiced and set some small goals and kept track of them. When I reached a goal I would have this amazing feeling. I was
able to do something I couldn't do before and no one else got me there. I did it myself. I felt like an inventor or like I was finally in control
of things. Even just that little bit and I suddenly felt like I could do anything if I put in some time practicing it in a relaxed and controled
manner. No rush, no stress. I would hear something I wanted to do and had no doubts I could do it. The only thing that could prevent it from
happening was ME.

That said, if you want to become much better at guitar and music itself, simply take this course and you will get there in an easy, relaxed,
systematic way. When you enter our virtual classroom, you let everything else in your life fade away into the background. You just relax and have
fun doing the exersizes while your mind adapts to the information and gets you where you want to be.

Last Friday I filled in as lead guitar for a local cover band and I spent about four hours in total learning 40 songs. At the show, they randomly
threw in songs that were not on the set list they gave me, did I panic and get angry with them for doing this? No, I felt confident that I would
simply use my ear and adapt instantly to whatever was going on. The show went over well and I played the main lead guitar melody parts to the
songs simply by hearing the songs in my head from being on the radio and then my mind told my hands what the notes were. Then I played them and
even improvised some cool solos. The moral of this story is that developing my ear saved my ass big time. Firstly, I am lazy and would have hated
learning 40 songs in such a short amount of time. I would have been all stressed and angry and might have even not played the show. I listened to
the songs about three times max for the harder ones and nailed them and then just used my memory from hearing music on the radio years ago that I
never even played to make it work on the spot live. Not to mention their original songs they decided to suddenly play. The only worry for those
was sudden changes. But when you have an ear you can adapt to changes fairly instantly in most cases and instead of freaking out and wanting to
run off stage you have some confidence in your ear and relax.

The funny thing is that the other guitarist in the band was then asking me how to play certain guitar parts he had been doing wrong all this time
and only noticed it when watching me doing them. The drummer also thanked me for finally playing parts in the songs that they never had in there
with their other guitarist.

All in all, I put in a very small amount of time and work and made some money at the show. I am happy to do less work and make the same amount of
money for sure.

I am telling you this because you can do the same thing yourself and it all comes down to ear training. If you are developed enough with it you
can immediately play whatever you can whistle or hear in your head. Learning songs on to way to practice in the car also saved my lazy ass many
times. Just listen to the song and break it down into terms your guitarist ears can understand. You don't need your guitar to be able to do
this...luckily, because playing guitar while driving to a practice would have probably gotten me killed.

I have been called a human jukebox many times and people say, "oh... he knows every song.. test him ask him to play a song. Any song.." Well the
truth is, I really don't know that many songs at all. I have HEARD many songs and as the story goes. Once you have an ear you can play what you
hear. It is very easy to attain. It doesn't require hours and hours of physical labor or mind bending studies. You just need to know how to do it
as a guitarist and I am going to show you.

So, you have now heard some of the benefits of ear training and even my personal story about how it has helped me as a working musician. When you
are ready to take this step and become much better, simply click the course to begin. Remember, I am a guitarist and know how guitarists think and
see things. I am not some guy playing piano trying to tell guitarists some abstract method of how to hear things. I am going to give you the
methods of doing this as a guitarist and it does work. If you want to do it or not it's up to you. Think of it this way, If I could wave a magic
wand and make you that awesome player you want to be, I am sure you would be like, "wave that wand at me!" Well, then you need to simply take a
look at your motivation, methods of getting what you want and omit excuses and do this once and for all.