How can you learn a song with two guitars by ear?

[Seiji]

How can you learn a song with two guitars by ear? Is there a way to split the sound in a song? I want to learn "Start" by Depapepe.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx6pF4WzuMA

[kydave]

There's a rhythm guitar and a lead guitar.

Which do you want to learn?

[Seiji]

I would like to learn both.

[kydave]

I suggest learning the rhythm through repeated listening; record it. By that time you'll have a lot of the lead in your head by osmosis. Then start on the lead to your own rhythm track.

Having the video should help in this case.

[Seiji]

Thank you. However, the intro looks very difficult and it sounds very similar. How can I learn the intro?

[ljguitar]

Hi Meiji

Here is a different link where they do it live, so the first phrase backing part is isolated while the other guy is talking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jwk_3NRATo

If you listen in stereo the guitars are panned off dead center toward the appropriate sides of the screen which helps and the camera angles are pretty good.

Hope this helps….

[Seiji]

Thank you very much. Is there a way to find out what the other guitarist is playing in the intro too? Or is the only way to try to listen to it when the other guitarist is playing?

[Seiji]

I bumped the thread.

[H165]

I spent a year trying to learn both parts on all the tracks on the PPM "In The Wind" album. I became a fairly competent guitarist trying this, but I recommend using tablature or something else.

Even though I got identifiable parts down pretty well, I never was clear on which exact notes were played an each guitar on the originals.

[Lacks Focus]

An old and very dear friend of mine, who was my inspiration to begin playing back when I was in college, learned by ear from old recordings of folk music. He had a monophonic/monaural record player, and taught himself to play the simultaneous upward and downward runs in Peter, Paul and Mary's "Talking Candy Bar Blues." It was amazing to watch him contort himself to get it done, which he did. He was great at it.

It wasn't until his family got their first stereo that he played the record again and discovered those were two different guitars.