This is a good reminder to include ear training regularly. I admit I usually cheat and just ask my 7 year old with absolute pitch. He can knock up a pretty decent lead sheet, but he charges in candy.
this is so great! i’ve been playing for just under four years and never been able to even play the simplest melody by ear (i already knew how to read sheet music when i started so always relied on that) and already after this video am starting to play songs by ear! thank you so much :)
First comment ever! I watched your play by ear vs sheetmusic video and followed the link to here. I took years of piano lessons from inadequate teachers and all we ever did was read music. Nothing by ear, no correlation between the keys and the chords. I always knew I had missed a lot, but this video just unfolded the whole process to me. I’m good at recognizing notes because I also sing. But the simplicity of looking at key and figuring out the possible chords never occurred to me. This was marvelous. I’m coming back to piano at age 76 and I am so excited.
Jazer you’re far out the best online teacher,I keep coming back for the basic techniques and soundscape harmonics.It’s a boost for my personal development.While I can’t read notes and have to depend on my hearing these tutorials are a must in order to compose my own music in combination with Logic Pro. Grateful 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🇳🇱
This is a well done tutorial, however I've come to the realization that I might have Aural Aphantasia. I don't have music in my head. I've been working on ear training and I can't imagine melody. I've been trying to sing, but I have to make sure my neighbors aren't home. I was the kid that choir teachers told me to move my lips and not make a sound. And when I tried to get a stage voice at summer University, the music professor asked if it wasn't too late to get my tuition back. It was, and eveb though she apologized and said that it was a beginning singing course and she should accept any student, the damage was done. I did learn some basics. But damn, it's hard. I'll keep at it and appreciate these videos, especially since you were the inspiration for me to finally buy a piano. Merci beaucoup.
This is actually really helpful! All of the piano covers I post, I learn with tutorials or play by ear. I can't listen to a song and play it back right away - it takes some time. But, using scales as a reference point is a really good idea. Not sure why I never thought of that. I kind of just thought I would be able to hear the notes rather than use anything as a reference. Thanks for sharing!
Learning to play by ear is a skill like learning to read music. If you have a song in your head or a recording, your points of reference would be sound pitches. When a song is on paper, your points of reference would be the notes. Not everybody think of notes in an abstract way with letter names A-G. A lot of Pop musicians have good ears but no formal music training. They can sing a note or play it on an instrument but wouldn't refer to it by the letter name.
Great tip and lesson Jazer. Once you've gotten the foundation down, in term s of the left hand though and working out the chords and accompaniment to a particular song, another tip I have learnt when I was taught, is try and minimize the distance your left hand has to travel when playing a piece. Instead of playing the chords at the root position (the original chords, except for the starting chord), try playing those chords in inversions. That's another reason why Jazer said chordal knowledge is key if you want to play accompaniment to a particular song. And that way, you minimize how far your left hand has to travel when playing a piece, making it less jarring if that makes sense.
wow, I thought it was the note but instead, the key is the interval. That works for me thaaanks!!! I just need to be more reasonable to pick easier songs first or at least the songs that give me earworm looping in my head over and over
I really appreciate your lessons. Clear, concise, repetition when needed, written reinforcement and excellent timestamps. I especially like that you cover the most useful aspects of piano playing for beginners. I'm 70 and have reached a reasonable level of competency with the supplementary info you have presented as well as my weekly lesson. My piano teacher is fine, without a scheduled lesson I procrastinate but your videos top up my knowledge which gives me a sense of achievement. Is there anyway you can help with understanding repeat markings? I'm not to bad at sight reading now but have terrible strife working out the structure markers. Thank you again.
I'm glad you're encouraging playing by ear. Some teachers only go as far as "guess the interval" and only then seemingly because the conservatories force them to! 😂 I tried to encourage my piano teacher to learn to play by ear but when you've been sight-reading for decades at grade zillion it's very hard to start over as a rookie again. Even though my dominant ear made piano lessons harder (my ear takes over as soon as it knows the piece) I'm happy that's the way I am.
I began developing my relative pitch once I identified my reliable resonant anchor. Personally, D resonates with me most and I was able to pull it out of any piece. From there, it was simply a matter of determining which octave it was, then I could focus on my various intervals. A lot of previous chord work made fifths easy to quickly jump to tonally, and from there its either a 3 tone jump back to a resonance at a different octave. With the 1-5-8 chord, you cover intervals of 4 and 3. so the only one left is 2... which is the distance to the middle note in a 1-3-5 chord if you break it up a little and play with it. This method let my ear pick up on a few tone shifts at a time, but they eventually weave and merge into much deeper patterns. Eventually, it easily integrated into any key I was in (even if D natural wasn't in the scale).
Then the musical🚀 took off in supersonic speed. No key was needed cos no key was the right key. It just went riffing in the octaves to infinity. A concord would've been the right chord too but it wasn't anywhere to be found. They searched through every scale.
Brilliant, I stumbled on this just at a time when I am trying to play by ear for the melodic line and then apply chords for the LH. so this is very supportive, thanks
GREAT! Especially the part with the chords to be choosen for the melody part! The perfect explaination! Thank you! May I propose that in one of your next videos you will show how to spice a melody like Twinkle-Twinkle up with more tones to give the melody line more volume? I suppose one way is to play the melody in octaves. Right? But any other soluttions? I am excited!
This video is great! I never thought I would be able to acquire this skill, but you made it fun and approachable. Thanks! You really make learning pian fun 😀
This was SOOO helpful!! Thank youuuu ❤ Have you also covered how to start remembering whole songs? Been playing for 2 decades but can Just play with notes in front of me 😢
Awesome tips! But I actually find it's easier to find the chords than melody notes. I assume the song will be one of more popular chord progressions: 145 or 1564 or 1645 and experiment with those until it sounds right as I sing the tune. Then move on to the melody.
Not sure what the english word is, but I so often find myself struggling with the "fine motor skills", some days my precision is so off that it is rather sad. Perhaps another word for everything is having a bad piano day. Another good upload btw, much appreciated.
Hi Jazer. Watching your videos gives me great inspiration and encouragement. Your videos are very interesting and useful. I want to pick up my piano practice again. I only took lessons for a short time in my childhood. So, I'm still on the beginner level. I am always fond of piano music. Thank you very much for sharing all of your piano techniques on RUclips.
When I started I got confused by that as well. Unfortunately there haven't been any tutorials like this one, so I needed to figure it out by myself. I taught myself playing by ear a few years ago. I would recomend learning a simple pop song, than just playing the "basic" tone of a chord (don't know what this is called) for the left hand, instead of the complete chord. e.g.: Than you will have 4 single tones for the left hand. It's basicly the 4 chords reduced to 4 single tones. Listen to each single left hand tone when you play it together with the right hand (melody). That should sound "right", as well as the 4 left hand tones reapeated after each other on their own. If you are used to the sound do that with other songs. You can also play the melody of another song and try to find the single tones in the left hand instead of the chord. Just listen to the song over and over again but don't cheat by watching a tutorial or looking up the keys somehow else. Try to play short melody sextions, which you can easily remember. That's the way I learned it. I thought about this method myself. That had been pretty easy for me, so I started to add more tones to my basic left hand tone. Today I am able to copy every song I want to, as I got used to the way it should sound. But be careful, jazz or blues for example works differently than pop, ect.. I would recomend you to listen a lot to the genre of music you wanna play.
I know how to sound out the note in my head and I know immedeatly if its the note I am looking for or not, I just cant nemorize the sound to a key on my keyboard
How much chord knowledge do you need to play left hand chords by hand? I got a distinction in grade 5 music theory but I forgot most the stuff I’ve learnt😅
Great work, I love what you do. But why not pick a memorable melody people want learn like Norwegian wood(Beatles) , let's dance (Bowie), wanted dead or alive (Bon Jovi) illustrate the concept.
For me the best skill for playing by ear is "pattern recognition". 'cause 90% of all pop songs are use the same pattern over and over again. E. g. I saw a video (forgot the title) explaining the phenomen why pop song use the 9th extensively. In Amin pentatonic this is the D, resolving finally to the tonic or the 5th now and then...
9:43 Music theory, here functional theory helped me a lot to know what to do. Most simple songs consist of the tonic chord, the dominant (+7) and subdominant. To have a little bit more color you can use the parallel of that chord. For C it's Am, F is Dm, G is Em. Also for more color change the base note of the chord. So I came up with my own left hand for "Alle Vögel sind schon da" with C | C | F | C/E | Dm | C | G7/B | C. I have a really bad musical ear and don't realize if a piano is out of tune. 😆 But knowing patterns, the pentatonic scale, what notes to avoid (the 4th) helped me a lot!
To me the F didn't sound exactly convincing either, because I'd expect the (2nd?) inversion of it. Inversions greatly complicates it to my untrained ear, it's one thing to recognize the interval without inversions and with inversions.
For me it got better and better every week - I started a few years ago by learning how to sing, and from there my ability to hear patterns in the notes improved greatly. Certainly was learnt over time.
When I was a little kid, whenever I was at someone's house with a piano, I would sit down and figure out songs I knew. I remember being about five years old and figuring out "Do, Re, Mi" from Sound of Music. So I guess you could say I came by it naturally. But I'm not anywhere near as good at it as my husband, a professional jazz musician. I still have to listen and slowly figure out the tune, where he can just echo and then improvise on any lick instantly.
I started playing keyboard (with left hand chords, arranger style) back in 1989! At that point there was a Yamaha music school very near me that was teaching this exact playing style. As a 19year old back then I was very interested in playing the pop songs of the era. I was really enthusiastic about keyboards and synths. I was quite good at the lessons (we learnt chords, note reading and basic theory) and was chosen to play at an event just 3 months in my study. But I always wanted to be able to play by ear. So very early I started experimenting in ways quite similar as your video. Sometimes I would try to whistle the song to find the interval. It wasn't long until I could easily find any melody I heard. And after learning more chords and scales, I was able to get the accompaniment as well. So my dream of playing pop songs became a reality! Fast forward a few months, we had a second event. After returning home, I played almost every song that was played there entirely by ear. Today I sometimes thing this experience is almost magical. I hear a song and my hands just go on the notes. I really can't explain how it works!
I've never tried - not since I was 7 or so. What I thought of as playing music, the neighbor who owned the piano called "banging" and insisted I stop. She pulled the first Schaum book out of the bench, showed me the basics of reading music, and made a deal: I could come over and play her piano, but ONLY what was written on the page. Myrtle the Turtle is quite a slow poke... I made that deal, because I really wanted to play, but to this day, if it isn't on the page, I can't play it. I got my own piano and started lessons at age 13, but was an absolute disaster at my one recital. I restarted with a digital keyboard I got for Christmas, my husband introduced me to the Bartok Mikrokosmos books as well as collections of short classical pieces, and I found a book of hand equalization exercises based on Czerny, so I have lots to sight read. Maybe I'll give "banging" another go...
My 6 years old daughter who never had a single lesson seems to play piano by ear. She played songs she knows without sheets or lesson then I tried blind folding her and she could still play them. I'm really confused 😂
After years of trying to learn how to sing a scale with no progress, you cant imagine how disheartening it is for every music tutorial, no matter the topic, to start with “well just sing it.”
Hi sir! Do you conduct free online tutorial sessions with your subscribers here? I am willing to join with live interactions if you ask question. :) It would be nice. 😍
🕘 Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:23 How to recognize notes
2:53 Nursery rhyme exercise
4:38 Try it yourself!
5:36 LH this time
6:34 Basic chords
7:56 Which sounds better?
11:23 Homework time!
Didn't this channel only have 10k subscribers 1 year ago ? How did it explode so fast ?
@@Jay-su5yo a year ago I already had over 100k and the YT silver plaque. 🤓
@@jazerleepiano I like your channel, it has many helpful tips
This is a good reminder to include ear training regularly. I admit I usually cheat and just ask my 7 year old with absolute pitch. He can knock up a pretty decent lead sheet, but he charges in candy.
I wish I had this "sweets to sheets" conversion machine 😭
hi where did u gey one of those ? im tired of translating on my own
Oh lucky you :(
LOL 😂
@@Meow-eh8qs lol so cute, same 😂
this is so great! i’ve been playing for just under four years and never been able to even play the simplest melody by ear (i already knew how to read sheet music when i started so always relied on that) and already after this video am starting to play songs by ear! thank you so much :)
Great video! Really love the bit about finding "matching" left hand chords with what the right hand is playing.
Thank you for the support! Much appreciated 😍🤓
First comment ever! I watched your play by ear vs sheetmusic video and followed the link to here. I took years of piano lessons from inadequate teachers and all we ever did was read music. Nothing by ear, no correlation between the keys and the chords. I always knew I had missed a lot, but this video just unfolded the whole process to me. I’m good at recognizing notes because I also sing. But the simplicity of looking at key and figuring out the possible chords never occurred to me. This was marvelous. I’m coming back to piano at age 76 and I am so excited.
Wow man
Jazer you’re far out the best online teacher,I keep coming back for the basic techniques and soundscape harmonics.It’s a boost for my personal development.While I can’t read notes and have to depend on my hearing these tutorials are a must in order to compose my own music in combination with Logic Pro.
Grateful 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🇳🇱
YOU, good sir, are an absolute legend of a teacher. Thank you for this and all your invaluable information.
This is a well done tutorial, however I've come to the realization that I might have Aural Aphantasia. I don't have music in my head. I've been working on ear training and I can't imagine melody. I've been trying to sing, but I have to make sure my neighbors aren't home. I was the kid that choir teachers told me to move my lips and not make a sound. And when I tried to get a stage voice at summer University, the music professor asked if it wasn't too late to get my tuition back. It was, and eveb though she apologized and said that it was a beginning singing course and she should accept any student, the damage was done. I did learn some basics. But damn, it's hard.
I'll keep at it and appreciate these videos, especially since you were the inspiration for me to finally buy a piano. Merci beaucoup.
This is actually really helpful! All of the piano covers I post, I learn with tutorials or play by ear. I can't listen to a song and play it back right away - it takes some time. But, using scales as a reference point is a really good idea. Not sure why I never thought of that. I kind of just thought I would be able to hear the notes rather than use anything as a reference. Thanks for sharing!
Learning to play by ear is a skill like learning to read music. If you have a song in your head or a recording, your points of reference would be sound pitches. When a song is on paper, your points of reference would be the notes.
Not everybody think of notes in an abstract way with letter names A-G. A lot of Pop musicians have good ears but no formal music training. They can sing a note or play it on an instrument but wouldn't refer to it by the letter name.
well said!
I've always had good realative pitch, but I've never known what to do with my left hand so thank you
Great tip and lesson Jazer. Once you've gotten the foundation down, in term s of the left hand though and working out the chords and accompaniment to a particular song, another tip I have learnt when I was taught, is try and minimize the distance your left hand has to travel when playing a piece. Instead of playing the chords at the root position (the original chords, except for the starting chord), try playing those chords in inversions. That's another reason why Jazer said chordal knowledge is key if you want to play accompaniment to a particular song. And that way, you minimize how far your left hand has to travel when playing a piece, making it less jarring if that makes sense.
I struggle with left hand, melody is relatively easy for me. Any tips? This is when I figure out the melody of various pop songs etc.😊
Same here 😢
wow, I thought it was the note but instead, the key is the interval. That works for me thaaanks!!! I just need to be more reasonable to pick easier songs first or at least the songs that give me earworm looping in my head over and over
I really appreciate your lessons. Clear, concise, repetition when needed, written reinforcement and excellent timestamps. I especially like that you cover the most useful aspects of piano playing for beginners. I'm 70 and have reached a reasonable level of competency with the supplementary info you have presented as well as my weekly lesson. My piano teacher is fine, without a scheduled lesson I procrastinate but your videos top up my knowledge which gives me a sense of achievement. Is there anyway you can help with understanding repeat markings? I'm not to bad at sight reading now but have terrible strife working out the structure markers. Thank you again.
I'm glad you're encouraging playing by ear. Some teachers only go as far as "guess the interval" and only then seemingly because the conservatories force them to! 😂
I tried to encourage my piano teacher to learn to play by ear but when you've been sight-reading for decades at grade zillion it's very hard to start over as a rookie again. Even though my dominant ear made piano lessons harder (my ear takes over as soon as it knows the piece) I'm happy that's the way I am.
I began developing my relative pitch once I identified my reliable resonant anchor. Personally, D resonates with me most and I was able to pull it out of any piece. From there, it was simply a matter of determining which octave it was, then I could focus on my various intervals. A lot of previous chord work made fifths easy to quickly jump to tonally, and from there its either a 3 tone jump back to a resonance at a different octave. With the 1-5-8 chord, you cover intervals of 4 and 3. so the only one left is 2... which is the distance to the middle note in a 1-3-5 chord if you break it up a little and play with it.
This method let my ear pick up on a few tone shifts at a time, but they eventually weave and merge into much deeper patterns. Eventually, it easily integrated into any key I was in (even if D natural wasn't in the scale).
This took on a more mathematical process in my head except with tones not numbers. I won't discuss how much sus6 threw me off... it was a lot.
Is this Martian ?! 😂
Then the musical🚀 took off in supersonic speed. No key was needed cos no key was the right key. It just went riffing in the octaves to infinity. A concord would've been the right chord too but it wasn't anywhere to be found. They searched through every scale.
Brilliant, I stumbled on this just at a time when I am trying to play by ear for the melodic line and then apply chords for the LH. so this is very supportive, thanks
Thanks so much for the video
I've immediately been able to try to play manger throne just by ear
God bless you sir😊
I'm a beginner and this video helps me a lot! Thanks!!!
GREAT! Especially the part with the chords to be choosen for the melody part! The perfect explaination! Thank you! May I propose that in one of your next videos you will show how to spice a melody like Twinkle-Twinkle up with more tones to give the melody line more volume? I suppose one way is to play the melody in octaves. Right? But any other soluttions? I am excited!
Very informative. I play songs just like that without knowing chords. Now it is clear from your lesson you can improvise
Good lesson Jazzer. Thats complicated enough. Imagine how amazing Bach was with his interweaving of complex contrapuntal melodies.
❤❤❤ Thanks for this lesson. You're an awesome teacher.
This video is great! I never thought I would be able to acquire this skill, but you made it fun and approachable. Thanks! You really make learning pian fun 😀
You're very welcome!
Can't wait to try this. You explain it so well.
Please do! And do let me know how it goes.
as a guitar player this is something that i should learn, amazing vid
Woww. This is the right video that i need. Thank you. You are my teacher now.
This was SOOO helpful!! Thank youuuu ❤
Have you also covered how to start remembering whole songs?
Been playing for 2 decades but can Just play with notes in front of me 😢
Thank you so much! I really like to play by ears. You gave us very good idea! Thank you so much!
Oh my god… THIS ENTIRE VIDEO MADE SO MUCH SENSE WTF 😮
Jazer, that was awesome. Thanks so much. I'm going to do a few minutes of ear training every day from now on!
best video for learning how to play by ear. thank you :)
Awesome tips! But I actually find it's easier to find the chords than melody notes. I assume the song will be one of more popular chord progressions: 145 or 1564 or 1645 and experiment with those until it sounds right as I sing the tune. Then move on to the melody.
Not sure what the english word is, but I so often find myself struggling with the "fine motor skills", some days my precision is so off that it is rather sad. Perhaps another word for everything is having a bad piano day. Another good upload btw, much appreciated.
I really felt the structure of the music here.When i read music i feel less involved.
good break down
Thank you so much i can play 2 more songs of my own now
Can you please make such a tutorial on different scales?🙏🏻 minor and major please with sharp notes
Awesome video man, like always! Loved it. Thanks!
This is very helpful, Jazer! Thank you. 🤗
Hi Jazer. Watching your videos gives me great inspiration and encouragement. Your videos are very interesting and useful. I want to pick up my piano practice again. I only took lessons for a short time in my childhood. So, I'm still on the beginner level. I am always fond of piano music. Thank you very much for sharing all of your piano techniques on RUclips.
I can play the melody just fine, but finding the chord is much harder.
When I started I got confused by that as well. Unfortunately there haven't been any tutorials like this one, so I needed to figure it out by myself. I taught myself playing by ear a few years ago. I would recomend learning a simple pop song, than just playing the "basic" tone of a chord (don't know what this is called) for the left hand, instead of the complete chord. e.g.: Than you will have 4 single tones for the left hand. It's basicly the 4 chords reduced to 4 single tones.
Listen to each single left hand tone when you play it together with the right hand (melody). That should sound "right", as well as the 4 left hand tones reapeated after each other on their own.
If you are used to the sound do that with other songs. You can also play the melody of another song and try to find the single tones in the left hand instead of the chord. Just listen to the song over and over again but don't cheat by watching a tutorial or looking up the keys somehow else. Try to play short melody sextions, which you can easily remember.
That's the way I learned it. I thought about this method myself. That had been pretty easy for me, so I started to add more tones to my basic left hand tone. Today I am able to copy every song I want to, as I got used to the way it should sound. But be careful, jazz or blues for example works differently than pop, ect.. I would recomend you to listen a lot to the genre of music you wanna play.
Agreed.
Easy to follow note to note but having a cluster of notes is a challenge for me.
best piano channel I know of
Love your classes!
GREAT video btw. This is what I do as well!
Good one.
You should make a whole video on how to play the song from epic game maker.
That's the only reason I watched you'r video
Great stuff!
Very Useful buddy. Thanks for my savior from hunger.
Thanks!
Thank you, Suzanneroyce9300! I really appreciate it!
I know how to sound out the note in my head and I know immedeatly if its the note I am looking for or not, I just cant nemorize the sound to a key on my keyboard
Thanks, Jazer.
Thank you for this video, good to see you stray a little from the "all the things you're doing wrong format"
Absolutely great video. Thanks.
How much chord knowledge do you need to play left hand chords by hand? I got a distinction in grade 5 music theory but I forgot most the stuff I’ve learnt😅
Excellent sir
Thank you for this video my brother 👊👊👊👊👊🇿🇦
Great work, I love what you do. But why not pick a memorable melody people want learn like Norwegian wood(Beatles) , let's dance (Bowie), wanted dead or alive (Bon Jovi) illustrate the concept.
😍😍 its awesome
Thanks!
Thank you. @idrp!
I've always used sheet music and thought playing by ear would be too hard. I will try this though.
For me the best skill for playing by ear is "pattern recognition". 'cause 90% of all pop songs are use the same pattern over and over again. E. g. I saw a video (forgot the title) explaining the phenomen why pop song use the 9th extensively. In Amin pentatonic this is the D, resolving finally to the tonic or the 5th now and then...
9:43 Music theory, here functional theory helped me a lot to know what to do. Most simple songs consist of the tonic chord, the dominant (+7) and subdominant. To have a little bit more color you can use the parallel of that chord. For C it's Am, F is Dm, G is Em. Also for more color change the base note of the chord. So I came up with my own left hand for "Alle Vögel sind schon da" with C | C | F | C/E | Dm | C | G7/B | C.
I have a really bad musical ear and don't realize if a piano is out of tune. 😆 But knowing patterns, the pentatonic scale, what notes to avoid (the 4th) helped me a lot!
THANQ FOR EVERYTHING AMAZING JFK GRACE ❤🎉
The 5 chord in a major is dominat, ex in c major it is G7
my music teacher was making the music it cord must be f major and change to b flat major but he still on the same cord
nice video
This helped a LOT but i just cant seem to arrange them
I memorized the sounds but cant title the sounds
Bedankt
Thank you so much, Peter! Much appreciated!
😉
So I can use this method for any song like gospel music
Solfa notation is the best remedy.
Súper!!!👍
I wish I had a piano
9:22 All right, but: how do you know which of those 3 options is the right one, without having to try them all?
🔥
I used to play piano by ear, but now I use my hands.
😂😂😂
I hope next video u could teach how to start play piano for 50 y.o. beginner
To me the F didn't sound exactly convincing either, because I'd expect the (2nd?) inversion of it. Inversions greatly complicates it to my untrained ear, it's one thing to recognize the interval without inversions and with inversions.
Pull up video of song and humm along with it and pick out key and notes. Di it a month andnit becomes easy.
100% option 2
Caitlin Clark VS Uncle James Washington
How many here can play by ear?
Did it come to you naturally or did you have to learn it? I am curious to know. 🤓
I can play by ear. I think it came more natural to me than others, but I still had to learn.
For me it got better and better every week - I started a few years ago by learning how to sing, and from there my ability to hear patterns in the notes improved greatly. Certainly was learnt over time.
When I was a little kid, whenever I was at someone's house with a piano, I would sit down and figure out songs I knew. I remember being about five years old and figuring out "Do, Re, Mi" from Sound of Music. So I guess you could say I came by it naturally. But I'm not anywhere near as good at it as my husband, a professional jazz musician. I still have to listen and slowly figure out the tune, where he can just echo and then improvise on any lick instantly.
I started playing keyboard (with left hand chords, arranger style) back in 1989! At that point there was a Yamaha music school very near me that was teaching this exact playing style. As a 19year old back then I was very interested in playing the pop songs of the era. I was really enthusiastic about keyboards and synths. I was quite good at the lessons (we learnt chords, note reading and basic theory) and was chosen to play at an event just 3 months in my study. But I always wanted to be able to play by ear. So very early I started experimenting in ways quite similar as your video. Sometimes I would try to whistle the song to find the interval. It wasn't long until I could easily find any melody I heard. And after learning more chords and scales, I was able to get the accompaniment as well. So my dream of playing pop songs became a reality!
Fast forward a few months, we had a second event. After returning home, I played almost every song that was played there entirely by ear.
Today I sometimes thing this experience is almost magical. I hear a song and my hands just go on the notes. I really can't explain how it works!
I've never tried - not since I was 7 or so. What I thought of as playing music, the neighbor who owned the piano called "banging" and insisted I stop. She pulled the first Schaum book out of the bench, showed me the basics of reading music, and made a deal: I could come over and play her piano, but ONLY what was written on the page. Myrtle the Turtle is quite a slow poke... I made that deal, because I really wanted to play, but to this day, if it isn't on the page, I can't play it. I got my own piano and started lessons at age 13, but was an absolute disaster at my one recital. I restarted with a digital keyboard I got for Christmas, my husband introduced me to the Bartok Mikrokosmos books as well as collections of short classical pieces, and I found a book of hand equalization exercises based on Czerny, so I have lots to sight read. Maybe I'll give "banging" another go...
I challenge you to learn Ravel’s Ondine by ear.
11:36 (Homework Songs)
I keep getting an error message whenever I click on your Skoove affiliate link. What’s your promo code so that I can type it manually?
I would love to learn all 12 keys of the piano, i can only play 5
This tutorial needs a tutorial
7:57 is the time where you get to choose
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So that’s it
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My 6 years old daughter who never had a single lesson seems to play piano by ear. She played songs she knows without sheets or lesson then I tried blind folding her and she could still play them. I'm really confused 😂
Beethoven knowing every pitch
After years of trying to learn how to sing a scale with no progress, you cant imagine how disheartening it is for every music tutorial, no matter the topic, to start with “well just sing it.”
Hi sir! Do you conduct free online tutorial sessions with your subscribers here? I am willing to join with live interactions if you ask question. :) It would be nice. 😍
For me, music by ear much easier than reading..
I did that twinkle twinkle little star myself with no help and nothing and it was corect.
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Can I learn this if I don’t know how to play 💀
Congratulations, Annie 1999 Annie made it
''ima give you C, ima give you D'