practice to perceive
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To recognize what is being played: mostly what note, key, scale, harmony movement.
They are likely seperate skills and seperately used, and you don’t need all of them as most ideas only works with 1 or 2. You can get away just being able to know the scale the song is on, others are playing, and just use scale-related ideas, transpose your licks on the scale.
1. Drills
I’d like to say just play more and listen to your playing. That’s where you establish the mapping between what is done with hand and what is heard with ear. It’s like how output patterns works as primitive for understanding with musical expressions, you play more, then when you hear a sound, you know how it is played.
Many may notice the coupling between hand, fingering on instrument and the sound, I personally worship it, I think it is how things should be done, and with practice your hand would be coupled with the sound so much that you hear something in your head and can just replicate it with this hand-instrument-sound function you have wired in your practice.