A budding guitarist – or even a relatively, uhm, budded one – could very easily and quite understandably get the idea that the ability to learn music by ear is some rare ability, bestowed only on those with uncommon talent, deep theoretical knowledge, years of experience, or some combination of the three.

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This is the second in a series of articles that aim to get you started on the road to playing your favourite music by ear.

Back in Part 1, we looked at why learning music by ear is a worthwhile exercise, and I sent you away with some active listening techniques and an example song to get you started. Hopefully you’ve had long enough since then to digest the song, so in this part we’ll take a look at how to deconstruct a piece of music and begin to discover what’s going on!

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This is the third and final instalment in a series of articles that aim to get you started on the road to playing your favourite music by ear.

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