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You may remember that great movie Streisand and Robert Redford starred in.

I remember playing “The Way We Were” by Barbara Streisand one time. It seems to be the crowning feature to your accomplishments and hard work. Playing piano by ear is so rewarding to you as a musician.

It is the fact that as you become more and more proficient with playing your music by ear in a spontaneous fashion in these type of settings confidence will come and you’ll be rewarded by the smiles on passer-byes faces as the recall the tune you are playing. Usually these pianos are just sitting there inviting you to play them and an audience may come around or it may not depending on the setting. In supermarkets, in hospitals, in halls, in Churches, in hotels….to name a few. I have a list of about 50 songs, titles only, that I have in my wallet.Īfter a while, when your confidence has risen, you will be able to sit down to any piano in the world and play familiar music to anyone who has a listening ear. Sometimes you will need to play a song over and over listening so very intently and picking out markers that will be reminders when going through the song on the piano without music.Īnother point of interest is that when you get a few songs down in your mind and are able to play these songs without the visual aids on your piano you will need to carry a list of these songs with you. You just need to be brave and little by little it comes to the top of you repertoire.Īnother aid to this idea of playing piano by ear is repetition. AURAL TRAININGĪural Training (ear training) is absolutely vital for any musician and you can learn this.

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It is such a pity to my mind when you see a wonderful piano player with years of practice and graded education who can play lets say Mozart’s Allegri’s Miserere for instance with sheet music but yet can not play the full version of “Happy Birthday” by ear.

I can tell you that once you catch on to the knack of transposing songs the reward is endless and so very exciting. At other times transposition is needed in order for the song to be easier to sing. Sometimes you will need to transpose a song in order to compensate for the physical properties of other instruments to be playing along with the piano. This good to remember and practice as it will help you tremendously when playing a song without notes.

Rule of thumb, any major key can be transposed into any other major key or minor key.

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This is all part of learning how to play by ear. Well this is where transposition of the key the song was originally written in to the key of C. You may have heard the term “transposition” which is a big word that simply means “the process of changing the key of a piece of music.” The fact is that most songs are easier to play in lets say the key of C where there are no sharps or flats to worry about. I have talked to many people who play the piano far better than myself but cannot go 30 seconds or even less, without the musical arrangement on the music stand in front of them.ĭo not be discouraged by this because you can accomplish playing your piano by ear without notes if you are determined and pay attention to the melody of the song as I said. Often this is not an easy task and especially when one has been trained to read music and that is all they have done.