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Manu's Music Page
This page deals mostly with the theory of music. If you were searching for tablatures/notes/chords for popular songs, I guess the net is already overflowing with such stuff, and I suggest that you try somewhere else. Instead, here I'll try to explain how to find the chords for songs, etc. by yourself.
Now we all know that it's not easy. "Playing by ear" and "playing by notation" are two entirely different concepts, though both can result in good music. I'll be dealing more with the former, namely, playing by ear.
The phrase "playing by ear" suggests that you don't need to know much of the theory of music, but that it's something which comes from "within". In my experience, this is not so. I feel that understanding music by just hearing it requires a deeper and more thorough knowledge of music theory than would be required to understand musical notation. Of course, to start with, playing by ear might just involve a hit-and-trial method, in which you keep trying out different notes and chords till one of them "sounds" right for the song you're trying to play. But eventually it is possible to converge that "hit-and-trial" method towards an "exact science"....well, almost exact!
If that has grabbed your interest, check out the table of contents for the various topics below. I have presented the concepts in my own style, rather than follow the traditional path. In these topics, I've also tried to highlight the relation of music to mathematics.
NotesChords and Harmony
Notes and their frequencies
Scales
Scales in Indian and Western musicSounding more than one note together"Playing by ear"
Types of chords
Related chords
The mathematics behind harmonyFinding notes by hearing
Findng scales by hearing
Finding and guessing chords
Conclusion
since April 27, 2000.