No - via the superhuman brains of the writers of guitar Tab and of my lovely guitar teacher David Guest

and slavishly obeying the instructions at www.guitarprinciples.com

Flute tunes by ear off CDs and my lovely irish flute teacher Kevin Naughton

Oh and if a section of a "famous" tune is too hard to play I'll write a substitute section, so it might look as if I'm playing say Anji but actually half of it will be made up easy stuff and the hard bits Bert plays can wait till the Summer

That and I was blessed with a totally unmusical family : we are all alienated postindustrial suburbanites from Birmingham so any resemblance to Folk/tradition/heritage/rustickness on my behalf is total pretension. I visited a field once and have seen a picture of some cows.

How do yous guys learn your tunes?