I don’t know, maybe because I had some time off, but I started to reconsider my aversion to emit sounds of varying pitches through my mouth while playing the guitar. (There are disabled musicians, there are blind musicians, I’m sure there must be mute musicians, too. Or voluntarily mute ones.)
I’ve never had a great voice, never had any singing lessons at school or anywhere else, around the time when our voices broke it was enough to know the text to the songs they “taught” and nobody really bothered to teach it anyway, so it’s kind of like a clean slate. I gave a shot to ear training when I started learning the guitar 5 years ago but didn’t get too far and just left it alone. I had much more success with transcribing where the notes are in some context and not isolated from each other.
But hey, why not try again, this time with more self-discipline? A few weeks ago I tried to “sing” the intervals of a major chord (starting on the lowest G) and got it kind of right in 10 minutes or so. I was really surprised.
I’ll try to take it in very small steps and see what happens. I don’t aspire to be even a remotely competent singer but I’ve heard/read more than once that some singing helps with ear training and interval recognition. I’m curious how it will go.