Fretboard wizard big win!!

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Fretboard wizard big win!!

Posted by markvguitar on December 10, 2021 at 6:39 pm

So earlier this year I tried out the FW. Got kinda stuck on the ear training stuff. Just couldn’t find the keys by ear or the chords by ear. Didn’t have time to devote to this and left it off. I recently went back to the beginning and worked through one lesson per day or so until now. This week I got BOTH the find the key quiz 100% (two tries) and the find the chords quiz 100% (first try). I’m feeling darned good right now. Practice practice practice makes perfect.

markvguitar replied 4 years, 3 months ago 6 Members · 9 Replies
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stevieblues

Member
December 10, 2021 at 6:51 pm

Congratulations on your Fretboard Wizard win markvguitar! 🏆 I don’t know if I can do the by ear stuff, I have tinnitus. Glad you went back and gave it another try. Keep on playing!
Loraine

Member
December 11, 2021 at 7:29 am

You should feel darned good @markvguitar ! That’s quite a feat to get 100% on each. Great job!
That_Guy

Member
December 11, 2021 at 1:26 pm

I had alot of trouble with the ear training too. Is it just me or is the sound quality of the songs used really bad? The singer was drowning out the music making listening for the chord changes impossible.
- markvguitar
  
  Member
  December 11, 2021 at 5:49 pm
  
  Some of the sound quality was bad. OTOH if you are in a real world situation trying to figure out a key or a chord the sound quality might not be good, for instance using an older recording to learn a song.
markvguitar

Member
December 11, 2021 at 5:50 pm

Now I wonder how best to keep practicing this skill…..
That_Guy

Member
December 12, 2021 at 8:37 am

Decide what songs your interested in learning and try to figure them out without cheating. I have to easiest time learning this stuff when i am doing songs I actually like because then it doesnt feel like work and its easier to remember. I find old 1960’s country strumming songs good for this purpose. Picking songs are too all over the map. You need songs with a steady strumming rythm.

Anything electric with distortion is impossible to figure out.

I use early work from Hank Williams sr, Merle Haggard, John Conlee, Tom T. Hall, Waylon Jennings, etc
albert_d

Member
December 12, 2021 at 12:52 pm

I love FB Wizard. It is so helpful. And the ear training endures.
RealKurt

Member
December 12, 2021 at 1:12 pm

Nice one Mark V. That ear training took me 3 times though the course to finally get, congrats on the BIG WIN!!!!
- markvguitar
  
  Member
  December 12, 2021 at 4:04 pm
  
  Of course today I took on the transposing quiz…not so good…It will take a few tries.

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