[musictlk] playing piano by ear

[Lauren Merryfield]

Hi,
When I play by ear, I don't play exactly like someone else would. I do try
to play similar chords to songs, though. Maybe you could have someone play
the piano parts to a song and you could learn it by listening to it. For
popular songs, once you learn chord progressions, you can pick songs out
fairly easily. And there's good ol' braille music which I just never worked
hard enough with. 
Thanks
Lauren

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-----Original Message-----
From: musictlk [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kelsey
Nicolay via musictlk
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 10:31 AM
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Cc: Kelsey Nicolay
Subject: [musictlk] playing piano by ear

Hello,
I know many people (sighted and blind) who can hear a song a few 
times and immediately figure out the chords to play it on piano.  
I took lessons and learning by rote, but my teacher had the sheet 
music and was telling me what notes to play.  However, I'd like 
to be able to play piano without sheet music since it is a lot of 
work to get it transcribed.  Therefore, I am curious as to how 
people can play any song without even looking at sheet music.  I 
know many of the songs on the radio today use several instruments 
in addition to the piano, so it's hard to pick out the chords.  
Therefore, does an acoustic recording help?
Thank you,
Kelsey Nicolay

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