https://banjobenclark.com/lessons/ear-training-the-pentatonic-scale-mandolin-beginner
Can you find these pentatonic scale-based melodies by ear? In this lesson, I’ll guide you through some ear training so that you can begin recognizing licks & melodies by ear…then PLAY them! We’ll also connect our voice to our instrument, so that improvisation happens more naturally!
Great lesson!
Wow that hurts my brain but I think it is exactly what I have been missing in my advancement. More please!
I like this!
Great stuff! Good word from Ben here: “You shouldn’t be getting 100%” That’s exactly right… if you start off getting 100% then you aren’t learning. It’s still ok to practice, but you aren’t learning anything new.
If you can play and not laugh while Ben is encouraging you, you are more focused than I.
I was just noodling afterward and noticed something. After working on this, I was coming up with different (for me) and decent sounding (again for me) licks more often than I normally do. Wow, I think I am learning.
Great lesson. Very helpful for me. Please keep going with more of these type ear training lessons.
Effective lesson. I’ve been away from the mandolin for awhile and this was a very gentle way to ease back in. Improvisation is great fun. Thanks!
Wish I’d had a lesson like this from the very beginning. Super helpful and would love more. Thank you!
Beep bapa dooba bah dah
Yes, I really like this lesson. I’d like to see (hear) more ear training type lessons. This was helpful. Thanks.
Loved the lesson Ben. I did it with my guitar!
It seems so basic. Maybe that’s why such an essential lesson is somerhing I never considered. Gosh Ben, keep teaching along this path!
Thank you!
This is great and simple. I used my banjo and gained some needed confidence in playing notes I hear. I will be using the technique with some simple songs to further my ear training. I’m hoping that it will progress into hitting melody notes while playing simple rolls.
Good lesson, Yes do more of this.
Great lesson! Do more of this.
Great lesson, would appreciate more like it!