Improve your playbyear skills by learning how to play through solfege/solfa. The more you sing the solfa notes as you play, the better your ears get! This is a song requested by student J :)
I guarantee if you do that at least 3 times a week for 6 months, your ears will be able to immediately translate a pop song on the radio into solfa as you listen to it.
The LH chords are written above the solfa notes in the lead sheet style
A major:
Do (D) A
Re (R) B
Mi (M) C#
Fa (F) D
So (S) E
La (L) F#
Ti (T) G#