Play Piano By Ear: A Fun Example (Use Patterns To Figure Out Notes & Melodies)
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2022
- Being able to "play piano by ear" is one of the most misunderstood concepts of learning to play piano as a beginner. Here's how piano pros "hear" melodies and intervals easily, and how you can do the same thing.
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The good news is that your ear is already somewhat trained, even if you can't play music at all yet. I'll prove it to you in the first few minutes. :-)
To clarify: There's something called "perfect pitch", also called "absolute pitch" that is extremely rare. I don't have it, you don't have it, hardly anybody has it.
However, you CAN develop "RELATIVE PITCH", and all that means is recognizing what a note is relative to another note. That's what I'm talking about in this video. You already have relative pitch to some degree, and the better you can get at it the easier it will be to learn new songs quickly.
I've got a lot more of this type of training on PianoGenius.com, so hop on over there if you're looking for more. :-) Thanks for watching, and please post whatever comments and questions you may have!
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Tim Gross Bio:
Tim Gross currently tours nationwide with Grammy award-winning artist Rick Springfield and has performed and/or recorded with Robin Zander (Cheap Trick), Terri Nunn (Berlin), Tommy Tutone, Check Negron (Three Dog Night), Greg Kihn, John Waite, Sammy Hagar, Mickey Thomas (Starship), Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon), George Thorogood, and others.
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Wow. Great explanation. Made this very approachable!
I am loving your course !!!
Thanks for the video. It still takes allot of practice with ear training-relative pitch to be somewhat good at it. Some people get it quicker than others. Also you eventually need the knowledge of the 12 key signatures-scales-interval studies, and also chords and their structures. Common Key signatures are C, G, and F are the simplest.
The song you demonstrated is also similar to "Joy to the World" where it is a walk down the major scale.
I loved the video! Very clear information all in one vid. Much love from the netherlands!
I find that sight readers struggle because they forget they're an ear rookie and their expectations of themselves are too high because they compare their progress against their reading skills or against ear players who have been doing it for years.
Also, my sax tutor thought he was "cheating" because he was using his knowledge to help guide his playing. He'd say that yet our warm-up was riff ping-pong which meant he had no idea what I'd play so he must have been doing that by ear. It's the result that counts so bringing knowledge to it is perfectly valid.
My tip is to spend lots of time playing along with recorded music - starting with very easy stuff.
Final point is to learn the sounds properly - particularly scales. Break free from those "all the scales in all the keys" books. A harmonic minor is a harmonic minor and once you know what it sounds like, you already know it in all the keys - the only tricky thing is the fingering.
A nice breakthrough tip for me. Just sing the scale till I find the note! So much easier than identifying intervals from memory! Of course interval training is also great… but baby steps!
I think it's good to have a bunch of approaches because different techniques suit different situations. If it works, it's good.
Glad to hear it helped! "Singing" the scale (whether it's out loud or in your head) is still part of interval training, it's just "showing your work" like when you learned subtraction in school and the teacher insisted you show how you "carry the 1" even if you could do it in your head, haha.
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Tim,. You explained things so clearly and simple that this dummy mastered the song even tho I don't like her song it made my brain click in the right direction ⬇️⬆️⬇️⬆️! I hope you do more famous POP songs like Keane, cold play,. One republic, etc. I am looking forward in your next lessons and being your piano lights up and you have music 🎵🎶🎶🎶 🎵 notes pop up to follow this is very helpful! Cannot go wrong! I will become a super genius sooner or later! Thanks much for this video! Just don't change the method! 🙏🔥🙏🔥🙏
Great! Yeah, I always say it doesn't matter whether you like a particular song I'm going over, I'm just using them because they're good examples. :-)
@@PianoGeniusCom Tim I agree with you that it was STILL helpful even tho I didn't like the song... It is the WAY you teach that shakes my brain realizing what I have had been missing!!! I did enjoy your lesson here very much.. Carry on with your methods... It was wonderful. 😊🤣🤣😊
I do a lot of ear training also, I do it by interval patterns over chords, I don't reference the key. For example, a 1 3 4 7 over a C7 chord with be notes C E F Bb, 1 3 4 7 over an A7 chord will be A C# D G. The pattern is exactly the same and your ear gets trained to hear that pattern, knowing the key signature is not relevant with this method. The key signature helps you when you are improvising, but remembering melodies is better done this way. Eventually, your fingers just fall on the melody notes without having to think about it. With this method, melodies are relative to chords, the absolute value of the notes is not important. Songs become very easy to transpose this way, you simply change the chords, the melody doesn't need changing because they are reference numbers, not absolute note values.
can you suggest how to match left hand arpeggio with right hand melody, please?
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wow, that piano low notes sound quality is amazing.
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Excellent video! What programme are you using to show the digital notes? It's really good
it gets even easier when you consider the tonal relationship of the 5th and how easy it is to hear. Then you just split the chromatic scale in half. Then the 3rd gets easy followed by the fourth and 6ths. It doesn't take very long. It took me personally longer to nail semitones vs whole tones in music using other modes than the major and harmonic minor scales
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Can you do a video explaining how to match left hand arpeggio with right hand melody, please? Many thanks!
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I can play the melody by ear. Do you have any videos on how to embellish that?
I can do this since I was 7. I just can't seem to figure it out how to use this to get the chord progression. Any tips?
please post more on youtube. i know you have website. but its confusing to lots of people.
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I skip to the 10:51 minute!
You wasted my time