uh.. jz practice back the songs that you've played b4? im sure you'll be back in top shape in no time. maybe 10 minutes a day (well works for me anyway lol)

U gotta know your keys and your chord progressions (practice the scales A LOT 1. to familiarize with the key, 2. useful if you wanna do some improvisation and know where to plant your fingers), especially if ur into jazz playing, you need a very strong understanding of music theory. I suggest you learn play some simple chords first. once you get to the point when u listen to songs and go "ah, i know that chord, and what comes next" you can play what you want. Or even experiment more with 7th chords, inversions, etc.

And quite frankly, a lot of pianists can't play by ear. Especially those who are classically trained, they just know how to sight read from the sheet music and don't practice what they learn in their theory. THat used to include me. lol. so yea, if you can play by ear there's a big possibility you will fool those who learnt piano for 8 years.

http://www.playpiano.com/ I'm subscribed to this and found it pretty helpful.

btw i'm not a sifu. LONG WAY TO GO haha.. and personally i find most chinese songs easy to train/analyze chords, cuz they all sound horribly predictable. well, to me anyway.

This post has been edited by vertigoblack: May 15 2009, 01:05 AM

agreed:D