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This short video has been incredibly helpful and inspiring! This has been a lifelong dream of mine to play by ear, and I think finally I have found the resource and teacher to help me do it! Thank you so much! I’m so excited to dive more into your training!
Great video Brenda and im sure will certainly help many people. As a guitar player I have played by ear for many years, though it’s not something that I was aware that I learned I guess I just picked it up somewhere down the line, I typically relate chords and key changes to colours then I translate to chords on the instrument im playing. As a relatively new piano player I found that I can also play by ear with the same method. Very strange, hard to explain but works for me.
Excellent suggest tonplaybby ear dear Brenda. Actually I do it that way, because I’m still learning to read music. Let me tell you that i have a rock and roll band on which i play he guitar, and I’m introducing keyboard. Your lessons are useful for me to develop my skill in piano. Thanks for that. PS I should have to say that i hace rock and old band, because All of us are se Bety or more year old, but i Love music.
I've watched a fair number of play-by-ear videos and this is a good one. I'd add, watch out for chord inversions because sometimes it sounds like the song changes chords when it merely goes to an inversion.
I need this because I want to play several songs that I cannot find the chord charts for because they are not popular songs but were recorded by Barry Manilow. Thank you
I do this a lot. When writing my own songs. I just kinda play what I hear in my mind. It's not always easy for me to make embellishments. Like I could write a beautiful song but when my hubby likes something I've written he will sit down at the keyboard and turn it into a WOW moment for me. He just takes my chords and adds 7ths 9th sometimes 13ths and then arpeggios and plays in octaves etc. .he said well I've had years and years of playing.. 🤣🤪🎹
What's to learn? Music is sound, not notation. I've always used my ears....just like our paleolithic ancestors who invented music, some 30,000 years ago.
😂 of course it is! But a LOT of people can’t play by ear and feel it’s impossible. I was trained by reading music and had no idea how to play by ear until I started playing jazz as a teenager. I wish I had learned the way you had! Now I teach others how to do it.
Yes years and years of piano training and where were you ears? I was once asked by faculty at Manhattan Svhool if Music if I played by ear. That seems to be condescending as I already read music and memorized it. Having a jazz teacher showed me the other approach of playing and improvising while I was studying at MSM. Plenty of singing as a kid I'm choirs and always used a singing approach to playing piano and organ. The ear has to be developed along with everything and that includes hearing harmonically, not only melodically.
I did my master’s in jazz piano at Manhattan School of Music! Small world. A LOT of people cannot play by ear at all, which is why I made this video. I have found that the tips I share in this video have made a huge difference for them. Thanks for watching!
She goes so quickly from "playing by ear can be learned" to "just memorize all the sharps and flats of each tone". The second part is what you would hear from a standard piano teacher, and there is nothing easy about it. Why not make it easier?: take a look at how kids learn to play chords on the guitar. Guitar chords are generally learned-- by shape. Some triads are shaped like a "straight line", as in all white keys evenly spaced. Some are "unevenly spaced straight lines". Some minor keys are shaped like "triangles"; with some triangles slanted left, some right. This system is more intuitive, and likely to keep students interested, and instill confidence in beginners,
Thanks for your feedback! Remember that these videos are meant as an introduction to musical concepts, not the be all-end all. Have a look around my channel if you want to learn some more piano skills and musicianship. I"m here to help!
Inversions come later. If you can’t hear root position, you definitely won’t hear inversions. This video is just an introduction. Watch for more videos on ear training!
Cannot see what her fingers are playing! Best she NAME EACH LETTERS while playing.. better if she had EACH letter light up like others do and NOT at a fast pace! 🙏⚡🙏⚡🙏
@@colorred5383 I think you have an ODD way of teaching.. other videos on RU-vid are excellent step by step on the piano with fingers playing , NO rush!
I started playing piano when I was 7 years. My grandmother played by ear and taught me what she knew. I began taking piano lessons and didn’t always practice my lessons and would look for the notes by ear! My teacher told me if I didn’t stop trying to play by ear I’d never learn to play. I ended up stopping piano lessons. I went through the first book and learned the keys. I can play simple songs by note. I never learned about triads and the other things you talk about. The way I learn to play a song I listen to it over and over until I memorize it in my mind. Then I set down and pick out the notes and play it. I’d like you to do videos on how to do “walk ups”, turn around and some of the other terms that help make a song sound “fuller and prettier”. I’m 82 years old now and still learning. I love playing gospel, country and Floyd Cramer style music. Would love more “how to” videos on how to play these kinds of piano music! Thank you for your time and tutorials.
