Trey Hensley - “Bending Your Ear”, volume 4 (Tabs vs ear training)

[@kebirbenkaccem726]

I been following guitar for 75 years and i am some what familiar with many guitarrist from variety of styles and fields but i didn't know about you until today...thank God for you tube!!! I play little flamenco myself but ilove guitar from any any style...You,Trey are amazing and your techniques and playing is mesmerizing and a joy to watch...you are member of the pantheon of great guitarrist..God bless you always and thanks a million

[@warrenstevens7091]

Thanks from British Columbia, CANADA. Love all your playing its so amazing renditions and all. Holding things together, pancho and lefty, San Antonio. Saw you when you played at Doc Watson on stage. !!!

[@johnlanzillo6205]

Thanks, I have learned all my life by ear, and you make it look easy. I now need teach my fingers to follow my ears....

[@chuckskarsaune3149]

Thanks for this latest episode, enjoyed it.

[@jamesreed7358]

About as good as it can get :) Thanks for the ear candy Trey. Keeper up. !!!!!

[@catchewayroulette6571]

Throwing in that Super Mario lick was awesome.

[@unsurprisingly]

You are man, mith, and legend..... ❤

[@kebirbenkaccem726]

Its astounding and amazing that some people can listen to a song and figure it out just by ear....That is has to be genetic ...i can figure out two or three notes by ear but not flamenco or the music Trey plays....wow !!!! To be able to figure out a song by ear!!!

[@ClarenceJWTR]

Your pick sounded very resonant when you dropped it on the table after Beaumont Rag!!! Also the Mario lick was sick hahaha!

[@bettydavis9519]

🌹Thanks again Trey. You seem to come out with just the right lesson for me! Have a blessed day 🌅

[@thomasstevens9551]

Thanks for being such a stand up regular guy. Even though your supernaturally talented, you never talk down to folks. Love how you explain your approach to music and talking to folks like were all drinking and jamming buddies. Loved seeing and hearing you and Robert at Red Wing Festival in Virginia. Thanks for all you do and staying down to earth to boot! God bless!

[@Jay-lr3me]

Couldn't agree more. Trey is so humble and likeable

[@key22u87]

Love these videos. Safe travels. Thanks.

[@nige2410]

Thanks Trey for taking time out to do these videos for us mere mortals ! Love ‘em 😊

[@JohnnyRebKy]

I tend to like the simple versions the best. I call them the “ front porch” version. The kind you instantly recognize. Many players get so fancy that the entire melody seems lost and I can’t even tell what they are playing. Somehow you seem to pick a million notes and still maintain the fundamental melody and that’s what I admire most about your playing

[@grekiely6245]

Trey, Mate thanks for the ear bend. :)

[@billycockrell2470]

I'm still loving these "bending your ear" things, man! Keep them coming. Thanks so much!

[@AcousticOne]

Big fan up here in Ontario Canada…thanks for bending our ears Trey! You and Rob should make your way to Toronto soon eh, Oh and while your here you should visit and play at the River Run Centre in Guelph we would really love to have you folks! Thanks in advance✌️

[@kevinobrien8158]

Thanks trey! Going to start ear training more I love your playing , I appreciate you taking the time to teach all of us

[@gregalderson128]

Trey, I love these videos of you explaining how you approach playing, learning a new song, how to remember the lyrics. These videos help ùs mere mortals out a lot Trey!

[@PedalSteel-by2hx]

Very nice. Could hear a little Clarence Comin through. 😊

[@superhepu]

Warm greetings from Finland too. Listening good picking helps to mind and soul feel better.

[@leonvmusic1]

Great Advice Thanks Trey

[@davidpaccia]

I have tried at least 20 times to slow down that awesome, weird discordant part at 1:20 (up on the 10th fret) to try and figure it out. Even at 25% speed I can't seem to get it. Would love to see you play that small bit really slow sometime and maybe discuss where it came from? I've seen you use it a few times and love it! Thanks so much for posting these Trey!

[@CFoeger]

The lick is E-10 A-11 D-12 A-10 D-11 G-12 D-10 G-11 B-12 G-10 B-11 E-12 Basically the same pattern repeated you can do it ascending or descending and start it anywhere. I saw it on a Doc Watson flat picking video Jack Lawrence does it and explains it.

[@davidpaccia]

@@CFoeger thank you very much! I really appreciate it!!!

[@williamsumptersr2301]

Good pick n trey. Have a safe trip home

[@Paulpoission]

Loving the series Trey!! Also, same with tabs!! I’m 💯 ear. When I tried to learn banjo years back I had a teacher pushing tabs. I was like F this lol. Nothing against it, just not the way I learn

[@joereadel]

Another great one. Thanks for doing these, Trey!

[@pallisg]

Writing lyrics Down to help remember is a good point, and so is “sing what you play” i had to try and learn your solo on flatt did it, so I Wrote the tabs Down, and it helped me remember it, so I didnt have to Read the tabs:-) , I still cant play it though🤔

[@ronniecapitanelli3729]

Tampa Bay ~..~ Green Grass & High Tides Pick’n Forever 🎸

[@abates226]

One I remember teaching myself (sort of) when I was a kid was Tennesse Flat Top Box. It was in the 80s and if I remember it was a Roseanne Cash release, but I think Johnny was on part of it. One of my favorite sounds of all is the stripped-down guitar stuff in that. Gave me hours of inspiration trying not to screw up the picking, which I enthusiastically did anyway, lol! Maybe I should get the tab for it and see if I can learn it, 😂. It was the 80s so no web, so if we obsessed over something, it was keep the tape deck with a blank tape and hope your can catch it when it can in the radio. Course records, but not a lot of availability for me. Keep bending - your strings, our ears. 👍

[@BanjoLemonade]

The problem is a lot of people “depend” completely on the tab and can’t play anything by ear and won’t try to either. Great stuff as always.

[@jamesreed7358]

Love all your work and your picking , brings me joy !

[@235buz]

When I first started dobro I tried tabs, but just didn't have the patience for it. I learn the same way you've described, but for some reason my playing just doesn't compare (😏). My dad told me he once told Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette that he was going to learn how to read music, and they said we like you just the way you are. Great vid, thanks.

[@cemcan2647]

🙏🙏🙏

[@kebirbenkaccem726]

Hey Trey, your music reminds me of yakety sax by Chet A.

[@EdDanaGuitar]

Writing lyrics by hand one time greatly speeds up memorizing them!

[@sudarshanmusic7689]

❤❤❤

[@jack6136]

By 1:22 into this post I have found that I know NOTHING About how to FLAT PICK ! 😮 🎸🎸🎸🎸👍

[@garywhite8369]

Great job as usual, one question, did your D41 come from factory with electronics? If not where could I get the same set up on my 2004 D 41? Thanks so much for all info!

[@BufordT-ji6zg]

How about a “Bending your ear” for vocals. Have any vocal tips or exercises? Thanks

[@IsaiahKeiser]

Dude, these are fuckin great. I download them and listen to them while I practice my pickin. Please keep ‘em coming! Can’t wait to see a show when you make it up to Indiana

[@loco.joe.goldfinger]

Tabs can for sure be a crutch if you rely only on them. I know because I used to be guilty of this :D But they have a lot of advantages too, when used properly: 1. Much like standard notation, tabs are a great way to communicate music to other musicians, be it entire breaks or just phrases, chord voicings, etc. 2. It's a good way to quickly start your way into a new genre. When I got into bluegrass I was blessed with this slurry of tabs of all these great breaks. Eventually I began to see the patterns and how to isolate and vary the individual phrases. I pretty much learned the basic vocabulary of the bluegrass "language" without having to transcribe any of it myself. Why reinvent the wheel, you know? :D 3. Tying in to #2: if used right, this knowledge feeds back directly into your ability to transcribe (i.e. learn by ear) stuff yourself. These days I hear a phrase and more often than not I go "Hey, I've heard this one before, I know what that is!" and I can just write it down in seconds. At the end of the day, though, ear training is still a necessity IMHO. Tabs/Notation is just a tool in my chest to make my life a bit easier. But I'm also at a point where I am able to check the tabs in front of me for plausibility. Again, due to this aforementioned feedback loop that all started with me reading some tablature ;)

[@N_M_46]

Is there a way I can get in touch with your former guitar teacher so I can take lessons with him?

[@Steve-si8hx]

Damn than intro was crazy good 😅

[@brianstanley4160]

Trey have you ever been to Louisiana,you doing great job !!

[@oklahomachris6298]

I’m deaf so tabs help. I wish very much my ears could play the tune and my head put to my hands. But that’s where shade tree players will always be shade tree players like myself camp fires and a shade is ok w me lol!

[@kebirbenkaccem726]

To any one out there: can a person be taught to figure out songs by ear? Please, comment..

[@darrenandrews8768]

What is the thickness of the pick you use?

[@TreyAHensley]

It’s around 1.5mm. (BlueChip TAD60)

[@darrenandrews8768]

@Trey Hensley thank you. I just started using a 1.14 Dunlop Flow, and it feels like I am going to break the strings. But listening to guys as yourself it inspires me to keep going. Getting faster with the stiffer pick, though

[@dacoelec]

Tabs stifle creativity. IMO. Don't worry about tabs, Trey, just keep on picking. Your songs are all recognizable and that's more than I can say for a lot of pickers. Too much wandering off into the weeds with a melody doesn't do any song justice, at least not in bluegrass, IMO.

[@indianaslim4971]

I agree and would even go further and say that the more people study music and get into theory and harmony the less creativity they have, it's like the more you know, the smaller the box you play in.

[@Jay-lr3me]

​@@indianaslim4971 thats not always true, plenty of amazing songwriters know theory, but you aren't the only one that thinks that

[@indianaslim4971]

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[@eddiegalyean]

Florida rocks!

[@indianaslim4971]

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[@indianaslim4971]

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