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Sunday, February 08, 2009

A way to Play the Piano - The Day I Learned to Play by Ear.

By Bryan Smith

I assumed I put away the entire idea of playing the piano for good. And I just did not have sufficient time to play the piano.

I believed that I might never play the piano again. I had struggled to make anything slightly resembling music.

I believed perhaps some folks are just good at the piano and the rest pay to see those folks.

I am sure 2 spiders where loony at me for evicting them from their houses. I put my keyboard on the bed and start fiddling with it. At first I believed I was going be hideous but I was nicely shocked when it started making sense. First I was just playing one note at a time as most children do.

I could see the way the notes where placed on the keyboard. I slowly and awkwardly put 2 then three fingers on the piano keys. To my shock I was able to play chords, nothing fancy by most races standards, but it was grand for me.

So what was it that got me to take my keyboard out of the closet after so long and helped me to grasp piano like never before? I started learning to play the piano by ear, honestly. I saw a piano course that stated that it would teach me to play by ear.

I knew that if I was getting so much out of the course without even having my piano, then I had to get my keyboard out of the closet.

I have progressed and now play for my church and in different bands intermittently. I haven't stopped learning to play by ear since that day.

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