Someone Like You Piano Sheet Music Pdf
Christel Malden
For as long as I've been playing piano, I've always played by ear and I can replicate a lot of songs/pieces after I hear them a few times (I have synesthesia and I might have perfect pitch), but I really want to learn sheet music so I can play more complex pieces and play 8 hand piano, duets, etc. I've watched countless youtube videos but none of them seem to be helping me; if the youtube video says to play a simple piece and they are playing along with me, I instinctively don't look at the sheet music and end up memorizing it...
Practice it the hard way: Take sheet music for music that you have never heard before and play it from the dots without finding a recording first. Thanks to the Internet, you can find collections called "50 easy etudes", "100 progressive etudes" etc. by Czerny and others that have had their copyright expired a long time ago. They're often not that musically interesting, but at least there's no shame in quickly moving to next one once you have memorized the previous.
Don't watch videos - read music! Lots of it. Borrow a hymn book. It's your job to play the 'hymn of the day'. Today's is no 1. Tomorrow's is.. yes, you've got it! Not to LEARN it, but to PLAY it. Straight off.
Because you are so quick using your ears, you don't need (often) to rely on the dots. Reading and 'learning' (if that's the correct term) the dots is second place. yes, if you have particular parts to play, that's the only way - play as writ - but systematic learning to read is the only way to go. Do it from a basic point of view - count like hell and read like a robot, not putting any feeling into what you play, initially, but just read and play like a machine.
The simple answer is that because you can play easily after listening to something, you feel there's no real need to use sight reading. Often, that actually is the case. But if there's no opportunity to listen first? That's when the reality of 'I need to sight-read' kicks in!
Play through a lot of relatively easy music. Once you have played it through once or twice don't practise but move on to the next one. Mistakes don't matter but if you constantly have to stop to read the material you might want to try slightly easier material.
If you have enough material you can return to the old material once you feel you have forgot it completely (some months should be enough since you have only played it a couple of times). This is also a nice way to track progress: after practising daily for a few months you're probably more fluent the second time around already.
Write down your melodies you can play by ear, also triads, arpeggios and write rhythmic variations of chord progressions.Remember the pattern of the notes and the pattern of the piano keys and the fingerings.Transpose your notation in different keys. Play with close eyes.Imagine the pattern of your notation and compare your image with the written notes.If you are able to notate what you can play, then you should be able to read and play what you have written - and other writings too.
One tip that helped me is for a given song, practice reading the tones separate from the timings. Practice doing one note after another as quickly as possible without regard to timing. (If it sounds too horrible, maybe do it on a keyboard that is turned off!) Then practice doing the right timings with only a single note. After you're comfortable reading just the tones of the song, and just the rhythm of that song, then do them together. Granted, this is less important if you're musical and/or know the song, but I think it helps divide and conquer the process of getting fluent at deciphering the meaning of the symbols quickly.
You're getting a lot of good suggestions, but I just want to offer a systematic approach to sight reading. Sight reading was part of the grade exams when I did it, and it seems to be a skill in itself. In the grade exams, you get a few minutes to look through the piece before you play it, so here are the things you should notice in those few minutes:
You are not comparing like with like. When you play by ear some song you've heard, you only need to play a rough approximation to it, accurate enough to let your listeners recognise the song. Playing off sheet music involves playing all the notes. And the other stuff such as dynamics and phrasing.
Sight reading is a skill separate from composing, transcribing, analysis, or memorization. You can make an easy analogy about reading between music and poetry. A person can easily read a book of poetry, probably memorize parts of it, but they probably can't recite it on first sight unless they spend time reciting lots of poetry. I'm talking about reciting with a decent sense of meter, rhyme, phrasing, etc.
You have to learn how to take queue from the written page and perform without hesitation. You can go slower than normal tempo, but you don't want hesitation, no breaking of the flow of time. For me, I am sometimes only half aware of the "meaning" of the sight read music (or recited text, I sometimes read out loud.) It's like shutting down any thought about the writing so conscious thought doesn't interfere with the sight reading.
Build a sight reading library. Others have mentioned the huge amount of material from Czerny, including lots of beginner material that is good for sight reading (the one downside is lack of variety in keys, the beginner stuff is mostly C or one or two sharps/flats. Along with Czerny look for collections with titles like "album for the young." Hymnals are another great resource, because they have dense harmony, good amount of counterpoint, and there are literally thousands of hymns.
There are some other categories of music that havn't been mentioned: dance collections, old song books, and figured bass solo sonatas. A few examples, you can put the PDFs on a tablet or get them printed at a print shop...
There is lots of music like this. Music that was meant for people to play at home to entertain themselves before the time of electronic recordings. Music for the average, amateur player. Not Liszt, etc. for the professional concert hall. This music was meant to be read. You don't memorize 120 country dances, you read from the book. Sure, you might memorize some, or half remember, but the book would still be read to aid memory. Learn to sight read by playing stuff that was written to be sight read.
I'm a very beginner piano player. Now I decided to learn to read notes very fast because it is a constant hurdle to learn a new piece and struggle even to read the sheet. And I found that using an app to help me with that removes a lot of resistance.
There are other payed apps that give you sheet music and again use MIDI or audio recognition (much less reliable). Like Simply Piano and flowkey. They require payment although not sure whether you can get away for free with flowkey. I decided to look more at them once I'm very fast just reading random notes. There are plenty of other apps so take your time to explore the available options.
In one video I watched, one guy recommended learning music theory so you can read whole chords as a single entity instead of reading each note individually. I guess this is the thing you need to strive for.
Any beautiful song will have something to teach you regardless of difficulty, but you might want to make sure that it accurately matches your skill level. Skoove has done a great job of organizing even the most complicated songs, whether it be a jazz track or Beethoven or rock, and you can use it to learn to play it regardless of how difficult it sounds, even on a virtual piano. The app has organized even the most difficult music by Claude Debussy into easily digestible lessons, which can be separated into single hands and then played with the included piano lessons metronome.
In order to find the easy piano songs for beginners, you need to understand how songs are broken down into genre. A genre is a style of music, sometimes it can be defined by the time period it takes place in, like Norwegian folk music, or, sometimes it is defined by the type of musicians in this group, like a pop vocal group. Easy popular songs to play on piano are written by all different kinds of musicians, you just have to find the right genre. Musicians use these types of category words in order to define easily the types of things that they want to play. Easy piano songs for adult beginners are important to your learning, because if they can excite your musical sensibilities, you will want to practice and play them more often.
Starting at the lowest end of the skill level, here are some examples of easy songs to play on piano. A key element in finding interesting music to play on piano that is in your skill level will be finding simple, easy arrangements.
Songs for piano beginners are typically written with simple piano sheet music like Piano Man by Billy Joel, and something that does not use complex chord progressions or time signatures like Moonlight Sonata.
The greatest thing about learning simple beginner songs is that you can make arrangements of complex songs into piano songs for beginners. With the right sheet music, even piano pieces for beginners will be interesting and fun to play. These will have simple melodies and for the most part simple rhythms in music.
Great intermediate piano pop songs are not very different from beginner songs, but are set apart from them due to additions of simple piano chords, or complex sheet music techniques that will be played by both bands. The latter is called hand independence. While it is possible to play simple songs like Piano Man with very simple single notes in either hand, now we can start to introduce chord symbols, chord inversions, jazz chords, or changing time signatures. These songs will typically have a more complicated melody in music.
This is a great example of adding jazz piano chords into simple piano pop songs. Many popular piano songs are written by using common chord progressions, and then by adding some chords that are just above the level of easy piano chord progressions, you can make a simple sound change into something very fun. Billy Joel wrote many songs during his life that are difficult to play, but this sound is rich and full, even when the notes are being played by an intermediate pianist. Try to hear the melody as he would sing it: confident and perfectly in time.
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