A child with perfect pitch, Tatum learned to play by ear, picking out church hymns by the age of three, learning tunes from the radio and copying piano roll recordings his mother owned.
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Cornet player Bunk Johnson said he taught Armstrong ( then 11 ) to play by ear at Dago Tony's Tonk in New Orleans, although in his later years Armstrong gave the credit to Oliver.
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In a basement, Robinson coaxes his students to play by ear on an upright piano, copying tunes and tempos they may have heard as toddlers to the fingering he sometimes provides, but not always.
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With the Suzuki method _ most widely practiced on string instruments _ a child is trained to play by ear at an early age ( 3 or 4 ) without reference to written music.
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Such consistent spatial mappings from the instrument to the pitches it plays promotes the development of intuition and aids in the learning of the instrument and even the ability to improvise or play by ear.
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Educated at Rivers Country Day School and Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass ., where he was a track star, Lemmon fell in love with the piano at age 14 and taught himself to play by ear.
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It's the same piano Smoltz plays by ear, often serenading his youngest daughters with " Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star " or " I've Been Workin'On the Railroad " while Carly and Kelly run laps around the spiral staircase in the foyer.
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After leaving school he was conscripted into the army and served with the Royal Army Service Corp ( R . A . S . C . ) in Egypt where he learned to play by ear some of the popular 32-bar numbers of the day on the piano.
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He then decided to overcome that by learning to play by ear, he used to go out at night to the sea shore behind Gudaibiya Palace to play out what filled his mind and heart, the view of the reflection of the moon on the dancing sea waves triggered his emotions.
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While not known as a public performer, Hupfeld was featured on a Victor Young & His Orchestra 78 recorded on January 22, 1932, singing and playing piano on two of his compositions, " Goopy Geer ( he plays piano and he plays by ear ) " and " Down the Old Back Road ".
