How can you play a song without a piano music sheet?!
Question: how can you listen to a song and just play it on the piano? isn't that so hard? i'm taking piano lessons for about 1yr. and 3 months and i don't get why people can listen to a song and just play the song. any suggestions to be able to do that??
Answers: how can you listen to a song and just play it on the piano? isn't that so hard? i'm taking piano lessons for about 1yr. and 3 months and i don't get why people can listen to a song and just play the song. any suggestions to be able to do that??
Good for you for studying piano! The way you do it is to listen carefully to what you're hearing. There are ways to analyze what you hear and know what it is. When you know what you are hearing, you're a step closer to creating that sound on the piano. Since I don't know how much you know right now, I may use words that you aren't familiar with, so take those to your teacher for clarification. I also don't want to insult your intelligence by telling you things you allready know, but I am going to make this as basic as I can.
Start with a single melody line and listen to it closely. You need to determine a few things: How many verses are there? How many phrases are there? What meter is the song in? Is it fast or slow? Hi or low? Now, take one phrase, and listen to the pitches in it. When do they go higher and lower? Now listen to the first 2 notes in the melody line, and match the first one to a note on your piano. After you find this starting pitch, decide what the relationship is between the first note and the second. Is the second note higher or lower? How much? Is it a third higher? A fourth? In music, intervals are the distance between one note and another and we refer to them as seconds, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, sevenths and octaves. Your ear can, with practice, learn to recognize these intervals very quickly, and as you study the piano, you'll learn how to create these intervals on the piano. After you learn to hear and recreate melodies, you are ready to harmonize them.
Next step: harmonizing your melody. Work in the key of C for now. Ask your teacher to make sure the melody you're practicing on is in the key of C. Play a scale one octave long. C D E F G A B C. Assign a number to each of these so that C is 1, D is 2 etc. Now, create a triad on each of these "base notes" These are your harmonizing chords. The best news is that you won't need all 8 yet. You can harmonize most simple melodies in major keys with only the chords you make on 1, 4, and 5. These are called your primary chords. ( Or primary triads). By listening to the sound of each chord you can determine which one would sound best with your melody. To make your song more interesting, vary the order in which you play the notes of your chord. With variations, you can create different styles of music, like classical, western, folk, rock, etc.
Ask your teacher to drill you in learning the sounds of the intervals. Closing your eyes, or looking away, the teacher plays an interval and you listen closely and decide between two options. (For instance, seconds and thirds.) Gradually increase your options. Also, ask your teacher to explain ways to vary the notes of your chords to create an interesting and pleasant accompaniment to your melody. Music software can teach you and drill you in these things, and at a music store you can buy theory books at your level to give you practice with these concepts. Over time, they become second nature, and you won't have to think about it so much. It can become more like a reflex, and people will say to you, "How do you do that ?!" Best wishes!
Just keep trying until you get it. If you keep at it, it will become just like talking. Practice, practice, practice. Sometimes it takes some time to work out a song, but just keep at it.
You have to PRACTICE AND MEMORIZE!!! Think about having fun.