{"id":24266,"date":"2020-07-10T08:09:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=24266"},"modified":"2023-11-21T14:56:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T22:56:56","slug":"how-gil-sharone-learns-a-drumless-song-by-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-gil-sharone-learns-a-drumless-song-by-ear\/","title":{"rendered":"How Gil Sharone Learns A Drumless Song By Ear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SLO5WcJzm6o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you had to listen to a song once while coming up with the drum parts in your head, would you be able to play it with no hiccups from start to finish?<\/p>\n<p>We gave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/why-modern-drummers-should-still-use-old-school-techniques\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gil Sharone<\/a> a drumless track he&#8217;d never heard before (&#8220;Funky Rastafari&#8221;, available in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/edge\">Drumeo<\/a>) so he could listen to it, write drums for it, and play through it &#8211; within minutes.<\/p>\n<p>As you watch him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-to-learn-songs-on-drums\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go through the process of learning music<\/a>, you&#8217;ll see how Gil gets ready for a studio session or when he&#8217;s asked to fill in for a band. You&#8217;ll also realize how quickly he&#8217;s able to do it &#8211; like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/gil-sharone-getting-the-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">learning an entire album on a plane<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>During his listen-through, watch how Gil adds his notes and rough form for each section on a piece of paper in realtime. He also doesn&#8217;t write down any beats or ideas, and this seems to work for him!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/07151536\/Doc-Oct-07-2019-1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Chart the form, check. Understand the feel, check. No click? No problem. During his first pass, he tested some different approaches while figuring out where he wanted to go with it. By the time he started his second pass, he had made decisions on exactly what vibe he thought would be the best fit for each section.<\/p>\n<p>Well? How&#8217;d he do?<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gil Sharone heard a drumless song once, wrote the drum part in his head, and then played it perfectly. Here&#8217;s how!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":24314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4024,4016],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-song-tips","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24266"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49492,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24266\/revisions\/49492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}