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This Lauren Daigle hit makes a great late beginner piano solo and this one comes with backing tracks to play along with! This lesson starts with a full demonstration of the song with tracks and is followed by a detailed “by ear” lesson demonstrating and explaining every phrase and note of the song. At the end of the lessons, there are backing tracks to practice and perform with!

Now this Christmas standard is available as a beginner level arrangement that you can learn completely “by ear”! This lesson also includes backing tracks to play along with after you learn the song without any music, print, or video!

In this Piano by Ear lesson, you will learn a beginner level piano solo of this classic hymn. The song is fully demonstrated and then taught in two to four measure sections, completely by ear, describing every note and finger used to play the song. Listen to the lesson sample above to see just how easy it is to learn to play this great hymn completely “by ear”!

Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect” makes a wonderful fingerstyle guitar solo and you can learn how to play it completely “by ear”! This lesson starts with a full demonstration of the solo and is then followed by a detailed lesson teaching every note and phrase without music, tab, or video.

This is the actual piano part from the recording by Ged McMahon and Kaz Hawkins. In this lesson, you will learn the recorded piano hit to this minor blues hit without using music or video. The entire piano part is demonstrated at the beginning of the lesson and is then taught in two to four measure sections, describing every note and finger. Learning by ear helps you learn the song faster and you memorize it while you are learning it. This also helps you to pick out other songs by ear later.

Jim McCarty’s work on this song is well worth learning and in this lesson, you will learn every lick completely “by ear”. The lesson starts with a full demonstration of the song followed by a detailed “all-audio” lesson of both the rhythm and lead guitar parts. Backing tracks in various versions are also included for you to practice with and play along with. This lesson is rated at a level two difficulty.

This box set is loaded with movie themes, Yiruma, and some advanced Jazz! This set includes pieces at both intermediate and advanced levels so you can use it for a few years as you advance in skills on the piano. This set contains eleven hours of high quality piano instruction, by a world-class teacher, taught entirely “By Ear!”

Despite being unable to play an instrument, Susan Rogers became an extraordinarily successful record producer—and certainly one of the most successful women record producers in history—because of her ability to listen. (She was an engineer on Prince's "When Doves Cry", which inspired the title of the book.) This Is What It Sounds Like distils a lifetime's expertise as a producer and an award-winning professor with a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, to present a new theory of listening for everyday music fans. 

For anyone who has been intimidated, overwhelmed, or just plain confused by what they think opera is, Who’s Afraid of Opera? offers a lively, easy-to-follow guide to what author Michael Walsh describes as “the greatest art form yet invented by humankind.” From opera’s origins in Renaissance Italy to the Who’s rock odyssey “Tommy”, and Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods”, Walsh explores what opera is and what it’s not, what makes a great singer, and why it takes Tristan so long to die.

You can learn this famous standard quickly because it is taught completely “by ear.” This late beginner level arrangement is played in its entirety and then taught in small sections using no print or music. Backing tracks are included for you to play along with.

How to Write a Song That Matters is an invaluable guide to writing music by a woman who knows how to do it and do it well: iconic singer-songwriter, Dar Williams. For years now, Williams has led songwriting retreats for musicians, from beginners to professionals, in which she elevates the process of songwriting over the assessment of the product. This book makes those intimate experiences accessible for songwriters across the globe, gifting them with the insight Williams has gleaned from her decades of experience.

Sound is alive in everything, and it is tuning humanity to a brighter future. Discover how plants create music and how space is a symphony of creation. Understand archeo-acoustics and how sound is used in sacred temples. Raise your vibration as you chant mantras composed of sacred names, thoughts, and expressions. Create harmony in your life as you embrace the world of musical experience and come in tune with your truest vibrational nature.

Have you ever wondered how off-key you are while singing in the shower? Or if your Bob Dylan albums really sound better on vinyl? Or why certain songs make you cry? Now, scientist and musician John Powell invites you on an entertaining journey through the world of music. Discover what distinguishes music from plain old noise, how scales help you memorize songs, what the humble recorder teaches you about timbre (assuming your suffering listeners don’t break it first), and more.

Mary Gauthier was 12 years old when she was given her Aunt Jenny’s old guitar and taught herself to play with a Mel Bay basic guitar workbook. Music offered her a window to a world where others felt the way she did. Songs became lifelines to her, and she longed to write her own, one day. Then, for a decade, while struggling with addiction, Gauthier put her dream away and her call to songwriting faded. It wasn’t until she got sober and went to an open mic with a friend did she realize that she not only still wanted to write songs, she needed to.

"The Songwriting Guitarist" author Mike Meiers shares his extensive knowledge and experience as a songwriter and guitar instructor spanning over a decade. This book presents a system that propelled Mike into commercial songwriting success and continues to secure major sync licensing placements and coveted songwriting guitarist gigs. Beyond mere guitar techniques, this guide delves into the art of songwriting, cultivating the right mindset, and undergoing a transformative journey. 

Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, and some Jeff Beck, CCR, and Christian Rock are all in this Guitar By Ear Box Set. This set has almost fourteen hours of high quality guitar instruction teaching some of the greatest hits of Rock and Roll, and you can learn them all completely “by ear” without music, tab, or video! This box set contains a mixture of late beginner through intermediate level song lessons.

This collection of uplifting, informative stories behind your favorite hymns will warm your heart and revitalize your worship. Each entry comes with the hymn's full text and musical score. Perfect for devotions, sermon demonstrations, bulletin inserts, and introducing congregational hymns, each hymn story includes information about the author, composer, the tune's name, and scriptural basis.

This Guitar by Ear bundle delivers a hit-laden batch of the greatest rock and blues hits of all time. This set has songs from The Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Doobie Brothers, ZZ Top, Clapton, and more. You will also find two serious blues slide guitar songs in this series, including all seven solos of Johnny Winter’s version of “Dust My Broom”! This is more than 14 hours of high-quality guitar instruction teaching all of the songs everybody loves and wants to hear.

In The Indispensable Composers, Tommasini offers his own personal guide to the canon - and what greatness really means in classical music. What does it mean to be canonical now? Who gets to say? And do we have enough perspective on the 20th century to even begin assessing it? To make his case, Tommasini draws on elements of biography, the anxiety of influence, the composer's relationships with colleagues, and shifting attitudes toward a composer's work over time. 

This Matt Redman worship song makes a wonderful fingerstyle guitar solo! This arrangement starts off simply with plenty of add-2 chords to give it an open feeling. Then verse two brings in the complexity and movement of arpeggios with a syncopated melody to really take this song up a notch. Bill Brown plays through the entire arrangement for you and then breaks it down into two- to four-measure sections completely “by ear”.