How To Play Piano By Ear?


Learning how to play piano by ear can be fun.
Learn the technique to do it in the correct manner.

Want to learn how to play piano by ear? After learning for a few months, when you can play simple songs, as well as have some understanding of scales and chords, it would be a good idea to train your ear so that you can start playing few songs be ear.

Playing piano by ear simply means that you should be able to play songs without referring to the written music; you have to figure out how to play the song only by listening to the song.

You could be a bit disappointed to see how difficult it is initially! Just because you get so much used to playing songs from sheets, the moment you have to depend only on your ear, figuring out how to play piano by ear becomes a challenge.


how to play piano by ear


How to play Piano by Ear?
Try it out!


There are no sure ways to learn to play by ear; the only method is by trying it out. Initially it may be trial and error and it may take some time for you to figure out the notes of a song, but as you keep on doing it, your ears become good at sensing relative pitch.

You just have to figure out a few notes and then finding the rest of the notes become easy. The more songs you play by ear, the better you get at it. Knowing the scales also helps since most of the songs are based on them. If you figure out a few notes, finding the other notes become easy if you know the scales well.


Play Piano by Ear!
Break it down!


It means take a few bars at a time! Listen to few bars and then try to play those notes. If the passage is difficult, you may have to listen to it many times before you get it right. Stick to it and you will get it right; this is the secret of how to play piano by ear!

You will need to reduce the tempo to a level where you can play the difficult passage easily. Proceed ahead to the next section only when you are able to play it without any mistake for at-least 3 consecutive times. Finally, play through the entire song.


Play Piano by Ear!
Ear training!


Want to train your ears further! Get yourself ear training software! You don’t need another person to play the notes and help you out in your ear training practice session; the software will do it for you and you can just concentrate on recognizing the notes.

These packages have several exercises to train your ears on the following:
  • Recognizing Notes
  • Recognizing various Intervals
  • Recognizing various Chords and Chords Progressions
  • Recognizing Scales and Modes
    • Regularly practicing these lessons can help you greatly to become good at playing by ear!

    You will find lots of software available online, some of which are free, to train your ears. For the ones that are not free, before you make a purchase you can usually try out the software for a trial period to help you decide. Make use of it!



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