Sentence examples for playing by ear from inspiring English sources

In this regard, Michelle was a concert pianist — disciplined, regimented, methodical — and Barack was a jazz musician, riffing, improvisational and playing by ear".

Born into a middle-class family in Newbury Park, Ilford, Phyllis had started playing by ear at the age of three, and had her first lesson on her fifth birthday.

Using two keyboards, Mr. Wilson, one of the only band members playing by ear instead of with sheet music, executed the bass parts of the songs with his left hand and the rhythm parts with his right, occasionally adding a solo.

Instead of playing by ear, recruiters and decision-makers must learn to distrust their instincts and opt instead for a data-driven approach to measuring leadership potential.

Lundvall's biography, "Playing By Ear," written by Ouellette, was published by ArtistShare in 2014.

Miller, however, played tunes on the piano from the age of six, playing by ear.

Nonsense: Even tone deaf (tin eared) people can have musical talent -- just don't play by ear.

Fain was a self-taught pianist who played by ear.

He said he'd always played by ear before.

Baldwin usually improvised on such occasions, or as he puts it, played by ear.

Kluwe became a violin prodigy who could play by ear, and he developed an advanced vocabulary.