I am going to tell you some ways on how to play piano songs. I am one who has learned to play and I know how it can be frustrating and you just want to give up. I first started with my brother because he is a concert pianist, but that was nerve wrecking. Taking [...]
Ok so you might find the next few links interesting. These are from around the web, just random snippets that I’ve picked up in my reading, but I found some very cool information in them. You might too. Here goes…
Posts about Learning Music as of June 24, 2009 | Tatuaj.org
Learn to play the piano smoothly [...]
If I Start Piano Will I Stay With It?
There are usually four questions a person asks himself before beginning a new project or working on a new goal or challenge. Those questions are:
1. Can I do it?
2. Why am I doing this?
3. Will I stay with it?
4. Do I have the time?
All these questions relate [...]
The human ear really is a marvelous organ - you can train it just like any other muscle in the human body. Also, the more you train it, the stronger and more efficient it gets, just like all your other muscles.
It’s much like training a dog - you continue to give the dog the same [...]
1. Learn to hear the melody line of a song. This sounds like a simple thing to do but it is the key to learning to play the piano by ear. The melody basically is the main you’re you hear in a song. I suggest starting with you favorite song or something that you can [...]
There is a stigma these days that is attached to the whole idea of playing piano by ear. It’s probably because many people don’t know how to properly play by ear. It’s like the forbidden skill of the piano world. I think that people don’t understand exactly what playing by ear is. Playing by ear [...]
I am an avid keyboard/piano player. Many time people will ask me “how can you play like that”. Most of the time I’ll just tell them that It’s a gift. And while being able to play all the intricate parts of a song can be attributed to a gift, knowing what your doing is the [...]
You can learn how to play the piano by ear easily. As mentioned in so many other articles, there are different techniques that make playing the piano by ear sound better.
Another left-hand technique that is easy to use is to take a chord and play each note separately in a sequence to form a rhythm.
In [...]
Many people ask, “Can I learn how to play the piano by ear?” My answer is this: If you can hear an instrumental song on the radio (with no lyrics) and you can recognize the song by the “tune”, then you can learn how to play the piano by ear.
Here’s an example: If you know [...]
Difficulty
Sight Reading - There is good amount of effort required to learn to sight read. This is why many people learn to sight read when they are very young. You must know all the notes and know all the chords otherwise you will not be able to translate the notation on the score sheet to [...]
