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alert('Answer...\n\nPlaying the piano by ear involves the ability to hear and recognize various chords, progressions, and patterns in different songs. For example, a musician who plays by ear should be able to distinguish between major, minor, diminished, dominant, and other chords. It requires improvising as one will rarely play a song or chord progression the same exact way TWICE. It allows musicians to express themselves and to add their own feeling or style to the music. Playing by ear is common in gospel, jazz, blues, rock, and many more styles of music.\n\nSight Reading, on the other hand, is the ability to read sheet music. It is common in classical and traditional music styles. While HearandPlay.com teaches basic sight reading, we specialize in teaching students MAINLY how to play the piano by ear\! We emphasize ear-training, chord recognition, music theory and improvisation\!');}
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alert('Answer...\n\nThere are many reasons why you should learn to play the piano by ear. First, you\'ll have the ability to sit down at the piano and play several songs without relying on sheet music. This alone, is an advantage as you\'ll be free to play whatever you feel --- whether you want to repeat a verse, add a different chord progression, or change the melody, playing by ear allows you to HEAR and PLAY what feels right!\n\nSecondly, you\'ll be able to play along with the thousands of other pianists, organists, guitarists, drummers, and saxophonists who play by ear\! Enjoy playing for your church, in a band, or just fooling around with some friends --- playing by ear allows you this freedom. What if someone said, \"Let\'s change the key of a song,\" ... would your sheet music automatically shoot out the new notes in a different key\?  NO!  That is why you must know how to play by ear so that you can improvise when the time is right!');}
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alert('Answer...\n\nWhile it is true that some are born with this wonderful gift to play by ear, it CAN be learned with the right ear-training and techniques. That is, EVERYONE has the ability to hear the differences between sounds, do we not\? We obviously know the difference between a car horn and an ambulance... or perhaps the differences in tones of a doorbell --- because those are sounds that we have trained our ears to RECOGNIZE\!\n\nLearning to play the piano by ear is the SAME way ... you must train your ear\! Playing by ear is not difficult --- it is JUST UNFAMILIAR to many musicians. There are 8-year olds who can\'t sight read BUT can play by ear. It all depends on what you have been trained to do ... if one can train their eyes to recognize notes on a piece of paper, then one can train their ears to recognize different types of chords and progressions. IT\'S THAT SIMPLE\! ');}
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alert('Answer...\n\nIt is common for gospel musicians to play by ear because they must know how to accompany different soloists, choirs, and even preachers. It is also common for blues and jazz musicians to play by ear as it is beneficial to their improvisational skills.\n\nEssentially, anyone who seeks to accompany a singer, play with other musicians, or play in a church SHOULD know how to play by ear. ');}
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alert('Answer...\n\nYes, we have several FREE piano lessons. Simply click on ANY of the \'free lesson\' links to check out over 60 FREE PIANO LESSONS. They include\: beginner\'s series, music theory, chord series, chord progression series, ear-training, and midi songs.');}
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alert('Answer...\n\nWe sure do\! \'The Secrets to Playing Piano By Ear\' 300-pg course has several concepts, techniques, fundamentals, principles and tricks which will help you to understand gospel music and the piano much easier. It covers sight reading, minor, major, dominant, eleventh, thirteenth and other chords and scales. Other techniques include harmonization, improvisation, and how to alter chords. Also, for a short period, we are offering a BONUS cd with the book. The BONUS cd has three programs on it\:\n\n1\) Sound Library --- Gives you access to over 330 sound examples from our course so that you\'ll be able to hear every scale, chord, and example taught in the book.\n\n2\) Piano Player Plus --- Allows you to train your ear with over 150 exercises, 500 questions, 20 chapter reviews and more\!\n\n3\) Chord Power v1.0 --- Teaches you 10 additional gospel chord progressions\!\n\nFor more information, simply visit\:\n\nwww.HomePianoCourse.com or click on the \'Courses\' link above. ');}
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alert('Answer...\n\nYou can start by signing up for any of our 60 FREE PIANO LESSONS online. Keep in mind that all of these lessons are excerpts from our 300-pg course entitled \'The Secrets to Playing Piano By Ear\!\' If you are REALLY serious about learning to play the piano by ear, I would encourage you to IMMEDIATELY read about our 300-pg course as we are currently offering a special on it. You can receive our course along with THREE additional software programs (FOR FREE). This special won\'t be lasting long. However, if you\'re not serious about improving your piano playing, then stick to our FREE lessons.\n\nSimply click on \'FREE LESSONS\' for more information\!');
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