how do you do this?

Question

how does someone play piano by ear and no music training?

Answer 1

if you hear a song & can sing the tune, you can pick out the notes on the keyboard by matching your singing to the tones that the keys make.....say, start at "C" & sing the song, pick out each note that matches what you are singing....
you have to have a pretty good ear to do this.....but the more you try, the better you get at it....it's fun...

Answer 2

Well, to play right handed piano by ear you have to know where the notes are in the keyboard but to play extremely well piano by ear you have to have at least 3 continuous years of training.

Answer 3

It's something that some people can just do naturally. I picked up guitar that way and poked around on the keys too. What's hard is learning how to play something that someone else wrote, especially if it's complicated. When you don't have any formal music training, you don't know about chord changes, scales, etc. You can only kind of sense a pattern or color in the sound and play to that. That's the best way I know of to describe it.

Answer 4

You 've got to have it. But with time you can improve this skill even more. i hardly read notes but i can play several stuff. you can find the melody played with the right hand and then try the chords that would suit if you just listened to the song once.

Answer 5

My daughter does. It's a natural talent. they hear and have the ability to reproduce the sound without lessons. it's like when they first play any note on an instrument they commit it to memory. so if u vocalize that note or they hear it on the radio etc they know how to associate the sound they hear with the correct note on an instrument

Answer 6

this is the concept of aptitude vs. ability:

ap·ti·tude /ˈæptɪˌtud, -ˌtyud/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ap-ti-tood, -tyood] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something; talent: She has a special aptitude for mathematics.
2. readiness or quickness in learning; intelligence: He was placed in honors classes because of his general aptitude.

Answer 7

i can play a little bit like "this land is your land" and "chopsticks" without lessons and i dont know how to play music!

Answer 8

well me, if you give me notes i cant, but just give me the sound and i can do anything, think about ray charles

Answer 9

by being a prodigy

Answer 10

skill