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How do I become as quick as possible at learning songs

Anonymous Sun 18 May 2025 05:05:51 No.1526757 View View Reply Original Report

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I didn't listen to the warnings of everyone and learned how to play piano off of synthesia type video tutorials and now 6 years later I am pretty good at playing but I am completely unable to read sheet music

Please help. I know that it's possible to learn a long and complicated piece within a few days using some sort of method. Please put me on to the method

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Anonymous Mon 19 May 2025 15:21:18 No.1526913 Report

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Learn to play by ear, and know what each note sounds like in your head so when you want to play a song you know and like it should be much easier. You can even arrange it yourself and make it sound unique
Despite what nepo baby pretentious fags might say, I dont think there's anything wrong with using synthesia to learn some songs you like, but if you want to advance, then playing by ear is what you should learn
>6 years later I am pretty good at playing but I am completely unable to read sheet music
Ive been playing for 10+ years and i havent even tried to learn it once, and my dad has been playing for 25+ and cant either but he is an incredible player so dont feel bad. Unless you want to play for a band, you shouldn't stress out over sheet music

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Anonymous Mon 19 May 2025 17:42:30 No.1526921 Report

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>>1526913
Idk exactly what you mean by "play by ear", that might be what I already do but I just haven't called it that, I just play by pure muscle memory bar by bar and then string it all together. I just want to know how to be able to learn a song within days instead of weeks, since that's how long is takes atm with my synthesia muscle memory method. I have to be able to learn songs as quickly as theoretically possible

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Anonymous Tue 20 May 2025 11:57:18 No.1527015 Report

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>>1526757
>I didn't listen to the warnings of everyone and learned how to play piano off of synthesia type video tutorials
lmao same
>>1526921
Pretty sure playing by ear is something different. Would guess playing by ear involves associating that note in your head with that key/position on the piano. So you could in theory hear that note and find it without comparing visually with the synthesia video.

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Anonymous Tue 20 May 2025 15:25:55 No.1527027 Report

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>>1526757
bro I am literally in the exact same position as you. Idk what to do. I worked a church organist job all last year and I had to insert the sheet music into a midi file to be able to play it with synthesia. it's ridiculous. I can read treble OK but not bass

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Anonymous Tue 20 May 2025 15:28:04 No.1527028 Report

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>>1526921
Why do you have to memorize the synthesia songs? Just make a video of the piece in synthesia, put it on YT, and then you can forever have it on your phone and just pull it up when you want to play it. I'm at the point where if a piece is easy I can learn it within 20 minutes. If it's harder like this one it takes me less than a week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEkaER0Sb6E
Heres my channel

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 May 2025 23:12:50 No.1527154 Report

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>>1526757
I read sheet music and have done for 20+ years, but I'm completely unable to hear absolute pitch so I'm like the complete opposite of you.
The way I find it easiest to memorise long pieces is to think of it as being in parts, like a story. Every part of the piece comes from somewhere and goes somewhere else, and once I understand how everything fits together it's just a case of starting from the beginning and continuing until I get to the end. It's the same kind of thing as memorising a song by listening to it. Eventually you'll know all the lyrics, the order they come in, where the breaks are, what they do in the breaks, etc, and it doesn't even take that many repetitions.
The hardest part is building up your muscle memory in general so that when you hear a certain pattern your body will know how to replicate it. There's no shortcut to that, you just need to play a fuckload of music. Eventually learning new music feels like just slotting things together in new ways.

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