How to Hear the Music Before You Play It
Skilled sight readers don't just decode notes -- they hear the music in their head before their fingers touch the keys. This skill can be developed. It starts with scale degree recognition.
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Skilled sight readers don't just decode notes -- they hear the music in their head before their fingers touch the keys. This skill can be developed. It starts with scale degree recognition.
Your ear works fine and so do your fingers, but the connection between them doesn't. The skill that bridges audiation to playing is recognizing scale degrees.
Most piano players learn pieces as letter names and finger positions, which means transposing feels like starting over. The fix is learning to hear and play in scale degrees -- and practicing that in all 12 keys, not just C major.
Learn 7 practical ear training techniques to find the tonic (Do) in any melody. Essential for solfege, melodic dictation, and playing by ear - with interactive examples and practice exercises.
Why you keep mixing up perfect 4ths and 5ths in ear training apps - and how to fix it. The problem isn't your ears, it's mental inversion. Learn to hear which note is actually higher.
When you're trying to identify intervals, your brain has to hold two different notes in your mind simultaneously and compare them.
Choosing between solfege, numbers, or keyboard for melodic dictation practice. Learn why practicing on piano in all 12 keys builds keyboard visualization - and why most musicians benefit from all three methods.
I built a solfege melodic dictation app that lets you practice on a piano keyboard. Learn why existing melodic dictation piano tools weren't enough and how I created something better.