Wondering about people covers of songs by ear

**LSamudioIII**

I did this one and was wondering how others do theirs?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cgS5_h7pe8

Forgot to add that it's the Will it Blend? Theme
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**yksi-kaksi-kolme** · Joined: 22 Jun 2008 Posts: 2806 Location: philly skramzzzz

I've never actually learned a full song by ear, but the way I learn any old part of a song is to listen to them over and over until I can accurately hum them. Once I can do that, I try to match my humming on my keyboard; after that I transfer it to guitar. I learned Für Elise and Don't Stop Believin' on piano this way; I learned Free Bird on guitar this way. I can play the full guitar solo on piano (ironically

), most of it learned by ear and just sticking to the familiar notes used in the solo (C, D, F, G, Bb are really common, especially in the faster parts)... that's another thing: if I learn the key signature of a song, I can usually just mess around in that scale until I stumble upon an actual part of the song.

Occasionally, I have learned some riffs by randomly messing around on my guitar and playing part of the riff, then matching the rest, and one time I learned a whole new riff just by playing a different one by accident.
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**LSamudioIII** · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:34 am Post subject:

hmmmm. that's interesting. With this one I just watched the video over and over listening to the music and trying to picture it in my head.
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**joekickass1234** · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 1436 Location: Cherry Hill NJ

I figure out the key. Then I find out what scale it's based around. In rock music it is usually the minor pentatonic. That's pretty much as far as you can get before you really have to critically listen.

After that I look up the tab.

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**TheZ116** · Joined: 30 Jan 2009 Posts: 145 Location: San Diego

I play drums.

It's still hard.

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**ThunderAlex** · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 8:26 am Post subject: