The Secrets to Playing Piano by Ear: Home Study Course

About this book

"For the First Time Ever Piano Extraordinaire Jermaine Griggs Reveals the Proven Secrets of How You Can Instantly Play Any Song By Ear --- Guaranteed!" Dear Friend If youre like most beginning musicians youre struggling to learn music theory -- how melodies songs and chords are formed AND how to use music theory to your advantage when it comes to playing piano by ear. Whether youve wrestled with self-help books "how-to" videos and music training manuals or have taken personal music lessons some of you have been disappointed. To be quite frank learning the piano is not an easy task. It requires a great level of understanding application and commitment. In fact it can never be totally mastered. That is a musician can always seek to learn new things --- whether it be an unused chord progression unfamiliar music theory or exploring different genres of music ... theres always room for improvement and exploration! You dont know me yet I realize but Id hate to think of you wasting your time and money on learning to play piano by ear only to find that your approach was flawed from the beginning. Simply put either you were learning techniques that have little or nothing to do with the type of music you want to play courses that hardly teach you the basics of what you want to learn or videos that require you to simply imitate what the instructor is doing neglecting the theory behind it. That is why Ive created HearandPlay.com and have taught thousands of people how to play the piano by ear. Over 11 734 people from over 30 Countries have already relied on me to teach them how to play the piano. Many of them have since gone on to play in bands churches special events and more (as shown in their Testimonials)! Over 1 211 of them now teach beginning piano to students! Imagine going from learning piano in a few months to passing on your knowledge to children in your community church ... or even family members! Survey Updated: 3/25/04 Hundreds of them now play the piano for their churches special events (weddings celebrations ceremonies parties ... and the list goes on) and even assist in directing the choir. These secrets will open up unimaginable doors! .... believe me I use them myself!. Survey Updated: 3/25/04 Students have paid me anywhere from $45 to $125 an hour for musical instruction. Since launching HearandPlay.com in August 2000 I no longer teach privately as this website has grown to be one of the leading resources on the net serving more than 65 700 subscribers with our piano lessons newsletters and more! These organizations along with many others have been impacted and have honored me for my accomplishments in various fields... Why do you need to know how to play piano by ear? Let me first start by saying that this article does not intend to discourage you from sight reading. In fact we teach the basics of sight reading even before exploring the techniques of playing by ear. For those of you who dont know what sight reading is it is the ability to read songs from sheet music. Although this is a wonderful skill to have if one does not know the theory behind what they are playing it will create several disadvantages: Sight readers will rely heavily on sheet music. Imagine being at church or at an event where you are playing and you must keep your eyes glued to a piece of paper ... how would this feel? I am not speaking from inexperience! I have been there ... Dont forget ---- I teach sight reading as well! Sight readers will be less likely to improvise (add style chords ... respond to what they hear) because their goal is to play whatever is written on the sheet music accurately. Sight readers will attempt to memorize entire songs instead of simply r