I want to learn piano by ear?!
Question: How should I go about this?
Books? Methods? Any ideas?
No, I can NOT afford a teacher.
Thanks!
Answers: How should I go about this?
Books? Methods? Any ideas?
No, I can NOT afford a teacher.
Thanks!
Your chances of success are very limited if you do not study with a teacher. Learning to read music is the first step.
Because of this, nobody I have ever seen has written any book, text, or method to play by ear, because it is self-defeating.
Even blind performers like Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder had teachers who helped them find the hand placements they needed.
Good luck, but it's damned hard to do.
One way to do this is to learn music through CDs, but in my honest opinion, learning by ear is quite a slow way to learn things.
You have to have a good sense of relative pitch to learn by ear. (That is not the same as perfect pitch.)
Not just everybody can learn to play by ear. Most people cannot, so you have to go through the slow process of learning to read music , playing scales and learning musical theory.
Sorry, there is no easy way to learn to play the piano.
The people I know who play by ear have always played by ear.....they just seem to know what to do, where to place their hands, they seem to have an inbuilt understanding of scale patterns, and they seem to know what they are hearing in their ear and they relate it to the keyboard .... wuff am I jealous !!
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