The best thing you can do for your musicianship is to ditch tab and use your ear to figure out how to play something. Even if you don't play it exactly like your favorite artist, you will have learned more in the process and made it your own.
This is why I quit my teenage bandwe were doing indie covers, most of which were fucking boring root notes shit on the bass.Then I finally got a song where I could do a bit of improv on it and drummer threw a fit because it was throwing him off as it wasn't; identical to the recorded version. I broke his shitty little drum kit and quit the band.My name? Davie504
>>130071179that's way out of my wheelhouse. i'll never be that good. i also have tiny ears so it won't do
>>130071214come to brazil my friend see the sights meet beautiful women have ear enlargement surgery
>>130071234my 20 year old gorl bass teacher was good at it but not me
It seems that good ears are something you are born with and can't really be developed. I feel for the Rick Beato ear training scam and still suck.
>>130071207Epic
>>130071179shit most of the tab on ultimate guitar is wrong half the time
>>130071179ears are everything. If you want to go to college, be a "professional" studio musician, you absolutely must be able to sight-read music. That's the basis of all those kind of auditions.But in the real world - literally every gig I've ever gotten has been because I can play pretty much anything that I hear. And as OP said, playing stuff by ear will make you a vastly better performer, because you'll be directly translating what you hear in your head to your instrument.boss level: play every melodic line you learn by ear in all 12 keys. It's hard to do at first but eventually you get super natural at it.
That’s nice but sometimes the notes go by too fast
