Playing Guitar By Ear - Pick And Put Your Pointer Finger between Root and Each Half Step Up To Five

In this exercise, we start with our finger on the root note, and then lift the finger off the root note, off the string, and jump up a half step and back down.

These exercises might be a little harder because you do not have the benefit of being able to feel the string, or hear the pitch, so you just gotta launch your finger and hope for the best.

This is a good rote exercise that can be practiced everywhere on the fretboard.

After doing this exercise with your eyes open for a while, do this exercise with your eyes closed.

After you have developed some muscle memory, you will be able to launch off from where-ever you are, and land where-ever you’d like to be, “by ear”