Piano Blog, Play Piano Techniques, Piano Tips » learn to play songs on the piano by ear http://playpianotips.com/blog Learn Piano And Play Piano With Yoke Wong Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:41:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Learn To Play Songs On The Piano By Ear http://playpianotips.com/blog/learn-to-play-songs-on-the-piano-by-ear/ http://playpianotips.com/blog/learn-to-play-songs-on-the-piano-by-ear/#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:28:00 +0000 Administrator http://playpianotips.com/blog/learn-to-play-songs-on-the-piano-by-ear/ Sometime people ask me if it is okay to learn songs on the piano by ear instead of by reading music.
Learning music is like learning a language. Some people tends to do better learning by ear. I used to learn music by listening to what my piano teacher played. Doing this tends to help me learn a piece faster than reading initially.

No matter what approach you take, sooner or later, your will discover your own strength.

Even if you like to learn piano by ear, I do encourage you to also master the sight reading skills. I believe both skills (play by ear and sight reading) are equally important to advance the piano playing techniques.

A lopsided piano player tends to do well in one area but deficient in another area.

A good example is you can teach you child how to speak English by talking to him – eventually he will need to learn how to read book and absorb information on his own. Similarly, a good reader will need to develop his conversational skill in order to better communicate with other people.

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