HOW TO FIND A KEY TO A SONG

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Today we will be opening your mind to something most pianist find difficult which is finding keys to songs when playing the piano.

As a beginner facing issues like this, i will say it's a normal challenge. Sometimes finding keys might take time, it's a stage everyone will go through. All you need to do is to listen and play. 

If you are reading this post and you are facing this challenge, good news for you because after reading this post the battle will be over , I GUARANTEE you

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At this point try to take away anything that will cause distractions and concentrate more on this topic.

Please for the short time, i want you to borrow me your ear, attention and attitudes.

Before we proceed, we will be doing an exercise for ear training.

Let make use of our private homes as an example to this.

Have you ever taught about what makes you identify the difference and how to tell which kitchen utensil falls on the ground. For instance, you are sleeping and a stainless plate or a breakable plate falls on the ground, what makes you identify the sound and the instrument producing the sound.

The answer is very simple. It because your ears are familiar with the sound of the instrument. Just as you can identify the voice of your friends, parent, relations etc.

Same goes to the piano

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you must make your ears be familiar with all the note. I encourage you to begin with the major and minor scales.

HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR MUSICAL HEARING

The easiest way to help your ears are

1. Play a note on the piano and listen very well to the note

2. Try to produce the sound of the note using your mouth.

3. increase the pitch of the note either a semitone higher or a tone higher. 

4. listen very well to the note and try to produce the sound of the note using your mouth.

5. Play a broken chord e.g DO - MI - SO, or any other chord and try to sound the note using your mouth.

6. Do this all the time.

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Doing this all the time will help you your ears improve more to musical sounds

So we will be introducing to you steps that you should use to find the key to a song.

STEPS ON HOW TO FIND THE KEY TO A SONG

1. LISTEN TO THE MUSIC OFTEN.

Before finding the key to a song, first thing you have to do is to listen to the song often so as to become familiar with the voicing and the punches.

If you are a beginner i will sincerely advice you to listen to the song up to 5 times and sing along.

2. FIND A NOTE THAT RHYME WITH THE SONG

After listening to the song over and over, find a note on the piano that rhymes with the song after that check the next note from the one you found a in a semitone movement, to check if it also rhyme with the song. If no then try a tone movement, any of the movement must rhyme the note unless if the note you found at the first time is note correct.

DO - RE (TONE)

RE - MI (TONE)

MI - FA (SEMITONE)

FA - SO (TONE)

SO - LA (TONE)

LA - TI (TONE)

TI - DO (SEMITONE)

So anytime you notice a semitone movement, what should come to your mind is either MI - FA or TI - DO

if you notice a tone movement follow the above movement.

3. PLAY A MAJOR SCALE FROM THE SEMITONE OR TONE NOTE TO LOCATE THE ROOT.

After you have locate the note movement, assume that the is any solfa for instance if the note is a semitone movement, assume it to be MI or TI so as to complete the scale using a major scale movement to locate the root and that's all.

Hope you understood all we treated today?
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