Understanding Piano By Ear Blog

“I feel like I’ll never improve.” That line came from someone who’d been teaching themselves piano for about a year, working through YouTube tutorials, learning to read some sheet music, and still felt like they hadn’t moved an inch. Not “I’m improving slower than I’d like.” Never. As in, permanently

A student sent me a message a while back that stuck with me. She said, “I find the key, and then when it’s time to find the chords, I just freeze. I’ve watched so many YouTube videos on how to do this and I still can’t do it.” She wasn’t

She sat down at the bench fifteen minutes early, like she always did. Sheet music squared up, hands resting in her lap, trying to look calm. Then the door opened and a twelve-year-old walked in, plopped down at the other keyboard, and ripped through a piece she’d been chipping away

My Teacher Gave Up On Me After 2 Lessons. Here’s What I Did Next. By Harry Rios He’s sitting in his car in the driveway, keys still in the ignition, not ready to go inside yet. Lesson two just ended. It didn’t go well. The teacher kept sighing in that

  7 Months of YouTube Piano Tutorials — Why You’re Still Stuck You sit down at the piano, pull up your favorite YouTube tutorial, and watch the colorful bars fall toward the keys. You pause the video, place your fingers exactly where the screen tells you, and play the notes.

Have you ever wanted to learn a song, searched for a piano tutorial, copied the teacher’s hands exactly… …and still felt like you didn’t really understand what you were playing? You could follow along while the video was open. You could pause, rewind, slow it down, and repeat the same