Hear. This word is spelled phonetically with the IH vowel, ih, but I find it's more like the EE vowel, hear. Now you'll see a schwa in the phonetics but you don't need to worry about it.
So instead of the tongue being arched up a little bit towards the front of the mouth, it's relaxed down a little bit towards the middle of the mouth, and you get something closer to a schwa.