{"id":234,"date":"2009-09-05T09:21:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T14:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2010-08-10T11:38:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T16:38:34","slug":"music-listening-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Music Listening Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My guitar teacher, <a title=\"James Goelitz, guitar\/bass instructor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kaganandgaines.com\/p-132042-james-goelitz-guitarbass-instructor.aspx\">Jim Goelitz<\/a>, suggested that I listen to songs I&#8217;m interested in learning and do a music analysis of them. He said this would be good ear training and would help me learn to pay attention to more elements of the music. Based on his input, I developed a form that I use to record my analysis. The elements include the name of the song, the composer, the performer or band, the instrumentation, the time signature, the tempo, whether it&#8217;s &#8220;swing&#8221; or &#8220;straight&#8221; rhythm, the form of the song (e.g., 12-bar blues), the key of the song, the chords in the song, and the tuning. I also add the source album, release date, record label and length of the song.<\/p>\n<p>On early recordings such as those of Howlin&#8217; Wolf on Chess Records, it can be a challenge to hear all the instruments. It can also be difficult, especially in the beginning, to hear the chord changes and work out the progression. It&#8217;s much easier on recent recordings where instruments are on separate microphones. To determine the key, I work my way up the neck of the guitar until I find something that seems to fit. I missed a few at first, but have gotten better at it. It&#8217;s a very useful &#8220;exercise,&#8221; but requires having a good teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guitar teacher, Jim Goelitz, suggested that I listen to songs I&#8217;m interested in learning and do a music analysis of them. He said this would be good ear training and would help me learn to pay attention to more elements of the music. Based on his input, I developed a form that I use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,42,12],"tags":[179,15,32,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}