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Modules
The course · one-time purchase · lifetime access
Play Piano
By Ear.
A method for classical pianists who can read anything and hear almost nothing. Seven modules. The unlearning course I needed thirty years ago.
4.5h
Video runtime
42
Practice PDFs
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Pricing · MMXXVI
$149 $249
Launch pricing through June. One-time, no subscription. If it doesn't work for you in sixty days, I'll refund you and ask nothing in return.
7 video modules4.5 hrs
42 daily practice PDFs6 weeks
Play-along MIDI stemsall modules
Private communityincluded
The problem · in one page
I spent thirty years reading music. I'm classically trained, I can sight-read most things the first time through, I've played weddings where the bride changed the song ten minutes before the processional and it was fine. And for most of those thirty years, I could not have told you, by ear alone, whether the chord you just played me was a ii or a vi. The eye had eaten the ear.
If you're reading this and nodding, you already know the feeling: you can play the page, but the song isn't really yours. You can learn a piece in a week, but ask you to sit down at a family dinner and play the birthday song in a key that suits the singer, and the whole thirty-year conservatory project suddenly goes silent. Reading is a skill. Hearing is a different skill. Most of us were trained on the first one and left to figure out the second on our own.
This course is the method I eventually put together for myself, working backwards from a jazz teacher's comment and a hundred hours of listening exercises. It's aimed squarely at classical pianists who want to stop being ear-blocked without throwing away what the reading gave them. Seven modules. About six weeks if you follow the pacing. Not a secret, not a shortcut, just the practice I wish I'd had at fifteen.
The modules
01
Diagnosing your ear-block.
Where classical training tends to leave blind spots — root-finding, chord quality, relative vs. absolute pitch — and the three quick tests I use to figure out which one is holding you back. Not theory yet, just listening.
32 min · 4 PDFs
02
Functional ear training, in one week.
The seven-day practice that unlocks everything else. Seven exercises, one page each, ten minutes a day. By the end of the week, you can name a I, IV, V, and vi by ear without thinking about it. This is the module that actually moves the needle.
38 min · 7 PDFs
03
Hearing the bass line.
The single most important ear skill classical training doesn't teach — and the one that turns a reader into a listener overnight. A short piece by Chopin and a pop song by Adele, used to show that the bass tells you more than the melody ever will.
41 min · 6 PDFs
04
The four cadences, in your hands.
Authentic, plagal, deceptive, half. Not as academic labels — as four specific sounds you can recognize and make in any key. Once you have these, you can figure out the endings of most songs you've ever heard.
44 min · 8 PDFs
05
From chords to voicings.
The gap between "I know it's a ii–V–I" and "I can make it sound good" is voicing. Three voicings per chord — open, close, rootless — and a practice method that gets them into your hands inside of a week.
52 min · 9 PDFs
06
Figuring out a song from scratch.
The practical capstone. Pick a song you love. I walk you through the exact process I use on every cover I publish: bass first, chords second, melody third, voicings last. We do two together — one classical, one pop.
58 min · 6 PDFs
07
Keeping the practice alive.
The routines I use daily, weekly, and yearly to keep the ear awake. Ten minutes a day is more than enough if the ten minutes are honest. What to do when you stall.
25 min · 2 PDFs
Reading is a skill. Hearing is a different skill. Most of us were trained on one.· the course, in one sentence ·
Honest questions.
Is this for beginners?
No. This is aimed squarely at pianists who already read reasonably well and want to learn to hear. If you can sight-read the Moonlight Sonata's first page at tempo, you're in the right place. If you can't yet read notation fluently, start there first — I can recommend teachers.
Is this the same as the free ear-training PDF?
The free PDF is Module 2 — the seven-day functional ear-training practice — without the videos or the other six modules. Many people find they don't need more than that. If you do, the course is here.
Why not a subscription?
Because I've never once in my life finished a subscription course, and I don't think you have either. One purchase, lifetime access, and you're done. Updates are free.
What does the "private community" mean?
A small Discord server where students share recordings of pieces they've figured out and ask each other questions. I read it most days and answer when I can. It is explicitly not a course hype zone.
Are you qualified to teach this?
I'm a thirty-year classical pianist and a serious amateur at hearing. I'm not a credentialed music educator. What I have is a method that worked on me, documented carefully, with examples from every genre I cover. You can watch the free module and decide for yourself before paying a dollar.
What if it doesn't work?
Email me within sixty days. I'll refund the course and ask nothing in return. I'd rather you have a good month than my $149.
Ready when you are
Seven modules, a quieter way to hear.
$149 through June. Sixty-day refund. One purchase, lifetime access, all updates included. The rest of the site is free, and always will be.