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Piano By Ear Essentials – Play Piano Today
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Piano By Ear Essentials – Play Piano Today

Learn Piano easily, and Play-By-Ear today. No need to Read Music. Whether it is Pop, Jazz, Blues, Gospel or not
Created byJay Solfa
Last updated 11/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Piano by Ear - Piano lessons for Piano and Keyboard will take complete beginners to understanding the basics of playing piano by ear very quickly
  • You get to play a popular song right from the beginning
  • You will learn to play something beautiful without reading sheet music
  • And you will learn this, through an absolute basic essential technique you will need to play any song easily

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Course content

3 sections • 15 lectures • 1h 23m total length

  • Welcome !0:28

    Start your piano journey with me by following three simple steps. Browse the course, share your thoughts in notes or comments, and pick 1–3 goals to practice on a piano.

  • Notes on the Piano5:37

    This lesson presents a three-step method to master notes: an overview of notes, identifying them on the piano using two-key and three-key patterns, then two reading and finger exercises.

  • Notes on the Piano_Exercise 15:13

    Practice fingered note reading on the piano with two exercises, using 1–5 fingering for both hands and a metronome to gradually raise tempo from 50 to 60 BPM.

  • Notes on the Piano_Exercise 25:11

    Practice the second exercise with the right and left hands, using numbered fingers on do to ti, switching fingers, and using a metronome at 50 bpm.

  • Finger Independence_Exercise 14:41

    Practice finger independence by performing contrary motions, then alternating motions with the right and left hands, and finally both hands together, using a 50 bpm metronome.

  • Finger Independence_Exercise 26:45

    Practice alternating motions with the right and left hands, first together then with switches, and use a metronome at 50 bpm, gradually increasing tempo for control.

  • Intervalls8:23

    Explore intervals, semitones, and tones in major keys as you map notes from C major, F major, and G major across both hands, building chord foundations for songs.

  • Major Chords7:40

    Master major chords built from three notes, such as C major, by learning the interval steps and inversions, then apply left-hand root notes and doubling for a full sound.

  • Minor Chords9:29

    Build minor chords from the root, three semitones up, then four. Explore inversions, left-hand root and octaves, and practice with a metronome.

Requirements

  • No prior knowledge or experience needed
  • You only need to practice 30 minutes, thrice a week to make rapid progress
  • Perfect practice makes perfect

Description

Piano By Ear Essentials – Play Piano Today is an online Piano course / Piano lessons for piano and keyboard , designed to get you straight on your way to playing your favorite songs right from the beginning.


Learn piano the efficient way


You've always wanted to play piano or keyboard, but you were afraid of endless lessons of music theory ? You think you need to read music fast ? Develop a perfect sight-reading ? Or learn to read sheet music first ? I know this feeling, having found it in several people around me, and some of my students. But, learning the piano is much easier than what you think, if you have the right method. Music is just a language whose basic structure you need to know, and piano is one of the many tools to speak it. We'll see all that together, in this easy-to-access piano or keyboard course that I've decided to put together to get you started.

Anyone can learn piano or learn keyboard. Whether you're into Pop, Blues piano, jazz piano, Worship piano, Ragtime, Gospel piano, Rock, Reggae, Classical, Improvisation, you'll find what you need. The content provided will allow you to acquire the essentials of the basics to give you a key overview, in preparation for your path from beginner to intermediate or advanced, as well as ear training.


You will discover :


How to learn piano easily, and progress quickly, thanks to :

·  An easy-to-understand structure

·  A shortcut approach to learning the instrument i.e. Piano chords, and

·  A fingering adapted to each step


You will learn :


·  The reference points to have right from the beginning, to find your way quickly on the piano

·  How to work on the fluidity of your movements in a simple and effective way

·  The link between the notes of a piece in general

·  The type of chords to master in order to progress quickly on the piano

·  How to work on these chords in a simple and effective way, and

·  A popular and easy piece to get you started on the right foot, without reading sheet music


Who should take this course ?


Wondering if there are any special pre-course requirements to learn all of this ? Well, no : no specific prerequisites are necessary. Your motivation will be more than enough, whether you fall in one or more of these categories or not :


·  Beginner Level piano players

·  Musicians in general

·  Curious guitarists

·  Singers or Vocalists


So... ?


Hope to chat with you very soon in the course,


Musically yours,


Jay

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner Level piano players who wants to quickly make the difference on their piano journey
  • People who want to go straight to the point on their piano journey

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