If You’ve Ever Wanted Free Piano Music… Imagine Learning To Play By Ear, You’ll Never Be Stuck For What To Play Again!

Listening to music is fun; playing music is more fun; playing music by ear is the most fun of all. If the player remembers the music he is playing by means of his ear, he is playing by ear. But most players who have learned to play by the traditional method of reading notes on a page and then punching keys on an instrument do not trust to their ears to tell them what is coming next. Instead, they remember the notes by name or by their chord name, or they have a visual memory of how the notes look on the page, or they use some other nonmusical system of recall. Naturally this turns their attention from the sound of the music and encourages the habit of watching keenly the mechanics of playing with almost total disregard for the music itself.

Practicing music is not fun. So say most of the children who are taking lessons and many of us adults who once took lessons but “wouldn’t practice.” But practicing is indeed fun for many children. Listening to music is fun; and when listening to music is the chief activity in practice, practicing is fun. This is even more true for adults than it is for children; children get pleasure from the intellectual and physical exercise involved in practice. Perhaps adults do also, but there is not so much novelty in it for the adult. However, when one practices the music, and not the mechanics, the result is fun—or the person just doesn’t like music.

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