Have you known someone who could pick up an instrument and play any requested song without looking at a note? You might be ...

William Congreve wrote, "Music has charms to soothe the savage breast." I'd add a corollary: "Playing music soothes the entire body." Many people take music lessons and find that it increases stress.

Only God lets someone play the saxophone by ear, Brian Babin says. Somehow, Babin also learned to play by heart. For 12 years, Babin, a retired attorney, has taken his tenor sax and a song list he ...

Whether you're into jazz, rock, pop, soul, or country, learning to play by ear starts with one essential skill: hearing and identifying chords. In this video, we break down the first steps to training ...

I was 6 years old when I realized I could transfer a song from my brain to an instrument by ear. My fingers gently pressed the piano keys for the first time as music oscillated throughout our family ...

Drew Wiegman never took a formal music lesson, doesn’t read sheet music, and plays the cello entirely by ear. That hasn’t stopped more than three-quarters of a million people from following his ...

Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are solely the opinion of that person and not the Daily Journal. Individually, Retro Dan and I have been doing this guitar/music ...

THREE FORKS (AP) -- Watching 16-year-old Jake Zeadow play his fiddle can be a jaw-dropping experience. His bow glides across the instrument's strings while his fingers dance along the tailpiece. The ...

“Won’t you play a piece for our American visitor?” asked the teacher. Shinichi Suzuki’s violin pupils scurried into formation against the walls of a bare Japanese room, swung their instruments under ...