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Originally Posted by Hotspur
Start by practicing simple melodies that you know by heart, picking them out on your guitar. Hunting and pecking is okay. This will be very difficult at first, and that's okay. Good sources for this are movie themes, christmas carols, and nursery rhymes.
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I use a slightly different approach. I usually have a guitar nearby while we waste our brains on the TV. When a commercial comes on, I grab the guitar and try to work out the melody for whatever commercial music pops up. Sometimes, I will work out movie and TV show theme and soundtrack music while we watch. It really does help build the ear no matter how mundane the music is.
Most of the time, she says it is pretty entertaining, albeit sometimes mildly annoying, to listen to me cop melodies. I finally crossed the line the other night when the commercial music was Here Comes Peter Cottontail". Before I could stop myself, I started playing the melody. I hear a voice saying, "That's enough. You have gone too far". She was probably correct.
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