It’s Possible To Learn The Piano By Playing By Ear ?
August 11th, 2008 by Classical Music Expert
Many piano students want to learn how to play piano by ear. Some are hesitant to learn because they fear it will be too difficult. While it can be hard at first, the more you practice, the easier it becomes. This article will show you how you can learn how to play piano by ear easily.
To play piano by ear, you need to learn the most frequently used chord progression and that is the 1-4-5 progression. To put it into chord terms it’s simply the C Major chord followed by the F Major chord and then the G Major chord.
Knowing these 3 chords will help you play piano by ear guaranteed. How? Because these chords are used in almost ALL the music here in the west! Which is to say, most pop songs use them. and many, many classical compositions use them. They are the bedrock of modern western harmonic theory.
You may be asking yourself why these chords are so important. You see it all has to do with the scale! When you play a C major scale you are defining the chords that can come from it. When we construct triads using this scale, the chords that are generated give a certain sound. Composers discovered that the most tension exists between the 1 and the 5 chords.
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