2 Sentences With "played it by ear"

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The Globe and Mail, April 28, 2014. Downie and the Sadies subsequently continued to occasionally write songs together, eventually deciding to release their original material as an album."Canadian collaboration creates fresh new album; Downie, Sadies played it by ear, one song at a time". Vancouver Sun, April 15, 2014.
Whitaker had heard the song and played it by ear. Whitaker began taking piano lessons when he was 5 as the youngest student at The Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School, a New York school for the blind and visually impaired. With perfect pitch, he learned to play piano mainly by listening, although he learned to read Braille music as well. He later studied at The Harlem School of the Arts, and in addition to taking lessons in classical and jazz piano, he learned to play the organ, percussion instruments, the clarinet and bass guitar. At 9, he earned the support of the Jazz Foundation of America, and as a teenager, he attended the Manhattan School of Music’s Pre-College Jazz program.