Play Piano By Ear

Hear me thank my dad for my car oil right at the beginning of this episode! 😂 This episode is about the way piano should be taught - forwards AND BACKWARDS!! There’s a lot of knowledge that is not tapped into until someone has taken YEARS of piano! This needs to change! I’ll be talking about all the “juicy piano stuff” that should be taught earlier on in lessons!

There are 5,286 chords on the piano! (Just kidding!!) Actually, the answer might surprise you! Also, don’t miss the free giveaway described in this episode - there’s not just one winner - every listener can get it!

This episode explains how to “predict” what a melody is - in other words, how to hear and melody and know what notes to play on the piano.

In this episode, I reveal all the tips and tricks of the method I use to teach students their first piano chord! This is so easy that I even have 5 year old students playing chord arpeggios in just a few weeks!

Learn what guitar methods got RIGHT that piano methods MISSED!! So, I am biased toward piano, but I’ve got to say, guitar teaching methods have one up on the piano methods! Guitarists are doing something right that pianists NEED TO LEARN! Find out what it is in this episode!

True or false: People who play by ear - they just, POOF, play anything by ear - no practice, no effort, no knowledge, no idea how they do what they do... is that really how it works? (NO!!) So how do you practice playing by ear???

This is something not taught in traditional theory piano books! The diatonic chords from the major scale parallel to the major chords on the circle of fifths and their relative minor chords! Understanding this connection will boost your ability at playing chords by ear!

There’s a lot of ways classical training is beneficial to playing by ear but also a lot (more) ways where it can hinder someone from making the change from sheet music to improv! Here’s a variety of pros and cons!

Here’s the things I wish I’d have known when I began to play piano on a church worship team. There were a lot of things that were assumed or expected that I didn’t know which were totally different from my classical background!

There’s a lot of different ideas that might come to mind when we think of playing piano by ear. In this episode I go through a lot of those ideas and also give my definition of what it means to play by ear!

There are 3 influential experiences that helped me learn to play piano by ear. In this episode I share those experiences!