Surfing the YouTube

[IamGroot]

I have an ear training routine where I turn on Youtube and play bass along with whatever comes up whether I like it or not. Goal is to duplicate whats played. Ive learned some nifty stuff along the way.

Anybody else do this?

 

[ThinCrappyTone]

haven't tried that myself,but that's a really cool idea!

 

[lz4005]

I used to do that when I was a teenager, only back then it was music on classic rock and top 40 radio.
It's a great exercise.

 

[saabfender]

All the time. Nice to know I'm not alone in this nerdiness.

 

[Flippy]

I used to do this but my ear wasn't good enough. Now I don't do this because my ear isn't good enough should start doing this again though.

 

[Richland123]

I have done that occasionally in the past.

 

[jaco944]

A variant of this is how I learned a lot early on. It was a stack of 45’s on the record player.....then Rush “Moving Pictures” on 8 track....that was fun.

 

[ptg]

I did that as a kid. I would turn on the FM radio to 88 something or other (lowest number) and just go up from there playing whatever came on.

 

[ZenG]

Yep...I play to YouTube a lot. Seems like some songs are offkey by a semitone or so sometimes.

I also use my Windows built in Realtek EQ to somewhat lower the bass in the song or other times increase it by bumping up bass and turning down everything else etc.

 

[JRA]

Seems like some songs are offkey by a semitone or so sometimes.

many are: for different, varying reasons. not the least of which is the speed of the playback source(s) to make the MP3/MP4 you listen to on youtube....it's pretty common with older recordings.

 

[Rum Ham]

Yeah, I try.. but it's kinda hard to play along with twerking videos. It's not always where I start, but. You know, the ol' rabbit hole. So Yes and No, to your question, was there even a question? What were we talking about? Do you twerk?

 

[IamGroot]

I noticed the pitch thingy too.
Eagles originals especially. At first, i thought it was the eagles themselves that did it. Then i noticed all the original videos disappeared, leaving only live versions. Maybe the pitch bending was intended to foil the copyright bots.

Quite frankly, if the eagles weren't on set lists, i wouldn't care if thetd music disappeared.

 

[FunkHead]

Yep, Youtube, Spotify, Radio, CD's, Records, Etc....
I play exclusively by ear however: I put a new twist on it all. As a truck driver for 10 years, I was stuck out on the road day after day after day.

So i started envisioning my Basses fingerboard while driving and listening to songs. Then I would come home and try to play them. I can pretty much learn and song without even having my bass with me.

 

[IamGroot]

Yep, Youtube, Spotify, Radio, CD's, Records, Etc....
I play exclusively by ear however: I put a new twist on it all. As a truck driver for 10 years, I was stuck out on the road day after day after day.

So i started envisioning my Basses fingerboard while driving and listening to songs. Then I would come home and try to play them. I can pretty much learn and song without even having my bass with me.

Most excellent.

 

[RichardW]

Not on YouTube, but I've done this with my own Spotify account--just put all my saved songs on shuffle and see what happens. Always fun when it goes from Robert Johnson to Karn Evil 9...

 

[MCS4]

I've done the same thing many times by putting my massive iTunes playlist on shuffle. I wish I'd make myself do it more often, frankly, because more ear training is always good.

 

[FingerDub]

I have an ear training routine where I turn on Youtube and play bass along with whatever comes up whether I like it or not. Goal is to duplicate whats played. Ive learned some nifty stuff along the way.

Anybody else do this?

I used to do that to commercials on tv before YouTube.

 

[Paulabass]

I don't do it to youtube, but almost every evening I'm at home I play along with T.V.- commercials and all. Commercials are fun- find the key, the groove, and a line, all in 40 seconds.

 

[Spirit of Ox]

When I was a kid in the early 80s I did that with MTV.

 

[socialleper]

I have zero ability to pick up stuff by ear. I honestly don't know how anyone does this. Without even a basic frame of reference you don't even know what the tuning is, and without that you don't have a reference point to start from.