You Can Learn How To Play Piano By Ear

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Have you ever met one of those people who can sit down and play a song by ear? They can just do it without even looking at the music - and they were just BORN THAT WAY. (Infuriating, right?).
What if I told you that you can LEARN to PLAY BY EAR? Not only CAN you, but I am going to show you exactly what steps you need to take to be able to do it.
It doesn’t take any special tools or skills - it’s just a matter of sitting down and following my easy steps.
This is how I learned to play by ear, how I taught my 9 year old son to play by ear and how I have taught hundreds of other people to do it too. It’s super fun and will make your whole life more musical!
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:36 About Brenda Earle Stokes
00:47 Video overview: How to play piano by ear
01:26 Step 1: The first thing you want to do to be able to play by ear
01:46 The best way to get started is to get situated in a key
03:18 Getting used to hearing a melody in your ear and being able to sing it on the piano
03:56 Step 2: Practice learning a complex composition by ear
06:20 How to learn to play a song by ear
07:22 The first thing to do when learning what a song is doing
08:40 Importance of developing the ability to start to hear the harmony of the bass notes
10:05 Practicing how to learn to play piano by ear by picking simple songs
10:57 Outro

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@PianoandVoicewithBrenda 2 жыл бұрын

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@sharimonnier3888 Жыл бұрын

This short video has been incredibly helpful and inspiring! This has been a lifelong dream of mine to play by ear, and I think finally I have found the resource and teacher to help me do it! Thank you so much! I’m so excited to dive more into your training!

@patstephenson6298 Ай бұрын

Thank you. The infotmation wss very helpful to me.

@teleted3000 Жыл бұрын

This was a very straighforward presentation of simple steps to start paying by ear on the piano. I am so pleased to have found this video.

@marilouanderson5442 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks heaps Brenda, sometimes self belief is what we need.

@elizabethtitilola 3 ай бұрын

This is amazing way of teaching,I'm glad

@pamelabunch7525 10 ай бұрын

Thank You!

@Metalpazallteway 3 ай бұрын

Love My Girl... great pick ❤❤❤

@actiontw6653 8 ай бұрын

Fantastico!

@tzodearf2596 Жыл бұрын

I've watched a fair number of play-by-ear videos and this is a good one. I'd add, watch out for chord inversions because sometimes it sounds like the song changes chords when it merely goes to an inversion.

@PianoandVoicewithBrenda Жыл бұрын

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@Nathrw Жыл бұрын

Great video Brenda and im sure will certainly help many people. As a guitar player I have played by ear for many years, though it’s not something that I was aware that I learned I guess I just picked it up somewhere down the line, I typically relate chords and key changes to colours then I translate to chords on the instrument im playing. As a relatively new piano player I found that I can also play by ear with the same method. Very strange, hard to explain but works for me.

@PianoandVoicewithBrenda Жыл бұрын

How cool. I feel like guitar players always have the ear upper hand over pianists since we piano folks are usually taught to read by eye.

@williamoregan9646 Жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you, with a guitar playing by ear seems normal and recently I have also started piano and found the exact same as you

@Nassuras Жыл бұрын

Love this video!

@PianoandVoicewithBrenda Жыл бұрын

So glad! Make sure to subscribe to my channel for more.

@joeritchie4554 Жыл бұрын

I need this because I want to play several songs that I cannot find the chord charts for because they are not popular songs but were recorded by Barry Manilow. Thank you

@Troy1g 5 ай бұрын

Excellent! Do you have a a video of how you make your charts for live performances?Lyrics and Chords.

@PianoandVoicewithBrenda 5 ай бұрын

Not yet! Email me about it and I’ll add it to one of the member calls!

@rodolfogonzalezsarrelangue7301 6 ай бұрын

Excellent suggest tonplaybby ear dear Brenda. Actually I do it that way, because I’m still learning to read music. Let me tell you that i have a rock and roll band on which i play he guitar, and I’m introducing keyboard. Your lessons are useful for me to develop my skill in piano. Thanks for that. PS I should have to say that i hace rock and old band, because All of us are se Bety or more year old, but i Love music.

@mikestroud9969 Жыл бұрын

Good video thanks ❤️🙏💯

@PianoandVoicewithBrenda Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome 😊

@georgebrehm8622 Жыл бұрын

She is such a pleasure to listen to and absorb the play by ear method,I wish she was my neighbour ,a great girl ❤

@PianoandVoicewithBrenda Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching!

@mario_israel Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lost!!! 🌼

@shekharkalley7431 Жыл бұрын

Humming songs without words will help alot to play by ear

@JerryAndJulieMusic Жыл бұрын

I do this a lot. When writing my own songs. I just kinda play what I hear in my mind. It's not always easy for me to make embellishments. Like I could write a beautiful song but when my hubby likes something I've written he will sit down at the keyboard and turn it into a WOW moment for me. He just takes my chords and adds 7ths 9th sometimes 13ths and then arpeggios and plays in octaves etc. .he said well I've had years and years of playing.. 🤣🤪🎹

@PianoandVoicewithBrenda Жыл бұрын

That's a great idea!

@sayonara6301 11 ай бұрын

How to find the baseline in a song ? Thank u

@mosestwumasi1501 2 жыл бұрын

Hope to meet you in person one day.

@petertarsio7168 Жыл бұрын

Yes years and years of piano training and where were you ears? I was once asked by faculty at Manhattan Svhool if Music if I played by ear. That seems to be condescending as I already read music and memorized it. Having a jazz teacher showed me the other approach of playing and improvising while I was studying at MSM. Plenty of singing as a kid I'm choirs and always used a singing approach to playing piano and organ. The ear has to be developed along with everything and that includes hearing harmonically, not only melodically.

@PianoandVoicewithBrenda Жыл бұрын

I did my master’s in jazz piano at Manhattan School of Music! Small world. A LOT of people cannot play by ear at all, which is why I made this video. I have found that the tips I share in this video have made a huge difference for them. Thanks for watching!

@wendellsather3650 Жыл бұрын

Do you have more in depth lessons on playing by ear

@PianoandVoicewithBrenda Жыл бұрын

I have one on Solfege that would help.

@danruhl8538 Жыл бұрын

Kansas,, dust. In the wind

@justinodinaka7952 Жыл бұрын

What of humming

@atjthe2nd 4 ай бұрын

Yeah! It's pizza cake! thx a bunch!

@danruhl8538 Жыл бұрын

You are so talented and so sweet and so beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@PianoandVoicewithBrenda Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

@jimmyfox0219 Жыл бұрын

The Mario theme song it’s so easy

@PianoandVoicewithBrenda Жыл бұрын

Agreed! My 10 year old plays it all the time.

@jimmyfox0219 Жыл бұрын

@@PianoandVoicewithBrenda I play the keyboard and ps all your daughter needs to do now or son start building up the chords the same way

@CanadianTonality 2 жыл бұрын

Where do chord inversions come in here? Playing chords in root position all the time doesn't sound very pianistic.

@PianoandVoicewithBrenda 2 жыл бұрын

Inversions come later. If you can’t hear root position, you definitely won’t hear inversions. This video is just an introduction. Watch for more videos on ear training!

@Borat_Kazakh Жыл бұрын

She goes so quickly from "playing by ear can be learned" to "just memorize all the sharps and flats of each tone". The second part is what you would hear from a standard piano teacher, and there is nothing easy about it. Why not make it easier?: take a look at how kids learn to play chords on the guitar. Guitar chords are generally learned-- by shape. Some triads are shaped like a "straight line", as in all white keys evenly spaced. Some are "unevenly spaced straight lines". Some minor keys are shaped like "triangles"; with some triangles slanted left, some right. This system is more intuitive, and likely to keep students interested, and instill confidence in beginners,

@PianoandVoicewithBrenda Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your feedback! Remember that these videos are meant as an introduction to musical concepts, not the be all-end all. Have a look around my channel if you want to learn some more piano skills and musicianship. I"m here to help!

@GaryR55 Жыл бұрын

What's to learn? Music is sound, not notation. I've always used my ears....just like our paleolithic ancestors who invented music, some 30,000 years ago.

@PianoandVoicewithBrenda Жыл бұрын

😂 of course it is! But a LOT of people can’t play by ear and feel it’s impossible. I was trained by reading music and had no idea how to play by ear until I started playing jazz as a teenager. I wish I had learned the way you had! Now I teach others how to do it.

@teedtad2534 Жыл бұрын

Cannot see what her fingers are playing! Best she NAME EACH LETTERS while playing.. better if she had EACH letter light up like others do and NOT at a fast pace! 🙏⚡🙏⚡🙏

@colorred5383 Жыл бұрын

i think you missed the point of the video

@teedtad2534 Жыл бұрын

@@colorred5383 I think you have an ODD way of teaching.. other videos on KZfaq are excellent step by step on the piano with fingers playing , NO rush!

@Mlspky Жыл бұрын

I started playing piano when I was 7 years. My grandmother played by ear and taught me what she knew. I began taking piano lessons and didn’t always practice my lessons and would look for the notes by ear! My teacher told me if I didn’t stop trying to play by ear I’d never learn to play. I ended up stopping piano lessons. I went through the first book and learned the keys. I can play simple songs by note. I never learned about triads and the other things you talk about. The way I learn to play a song I listen to it over and over until I memorize it in my mind. Then I set down and pick out the notes and play it. I’d like you to do videos on how to do “walk ups”, turn around and some of the other terms that help make a song sound “fuller and prettier”. I’m 82 years old now and still learning. I love playing gospel, country and Floyd Cramer style music. Would love more “how to” videos on how to play these kinds of piano music! Thank you for your time and tutorials.