Note: This lesson is taken straight from the Play By Ear Mastery Course. If you have access for free you went through a link in the [PSH] emails.

Hey! Welcome to this lesson where I give you the 5 most common patterns in pop music. Almost every song contains one of these patterns, so if you can learn them, when you hear one of them in a song you can instantly know exactly how to play it on the keyboard.

Key points from the lesson:

1. There are certain patterns of notes that occur in a TON of pop songs.

2. The most common pattern by far is 5 3 2 1.

3. The 4 other very common patterns are 3 5 6, 3 2 1 6, 6 7 1, and 4 3 2 1.

Exercise on Hook Patterns

There's no real exercise for this lesson. Just whenever you're listening to music, see if you can pick out some of these common patterns from songs you hear on the radio or on your ipod!

Quizzes on Hook Patterns

Click here to take the piano quiz!

Click here to take the quiz on real songs! 

Action Step:

Time to take action! Take the quizzes, and start internalizing these patterns. These will help you tremendously on your journey to play by ear.

If you want the entire start-to-finish course on how to play by ear, you can check out the full “Play By Ear Mastery” Course here.

Oh, and if you go through this Secret Lesson link, you get 50% off :).

I'll see you in the next lesson,

-Zach