Showing results by author "Bill Brown" in All Categories

This arrangement is based on “Opus 10 No. 3” and is arranged at an early intermediate level. This makes it suitable for those of you who have been playing for about two years or more. What a fun and easy way to learn this beautiful piece using no music or print.

Each lesson begins with a full demonstration of each song, followed by a complete backing track to play along with as soon as you’ve learned your part! Every song in the By Ear Library is taught using audio-only lessons: No printed music, tab, or videos will ever be needed for you to master your instrument, guaranteed!

The songs in this Piano by Ear box set span centuries, and yet each one of them is as memorable as the next. From St. Dallán Forgaill to Lauren Daigle, this set of songs will give you a repertoire of church standards, in a variety of levels, that you will find yourself playing for the rest of your life. All songs are taught “by ear” without the use of video or print, so you can work on them anywhere, at any time.

Planting, renovating, maintaining, and caring for your lawn, with a season-by-season guideline, gives you the knowledge to make your lawn fit for a king!

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 surf standard is fun and easy to learn when you learn it “by ear”! In this lesson, the student learns the rhythm and lead guitar parts completely “by ear” using no music, tab, or video. The lesson starts with a full demonstration of the song followed by a detailed lesson of every phrase and lick. At the end of the lesson there are backing tracks in three different configurations for live performance!

This box set contains a wide variety of fingerstyle solo arrangements that are worthy of every performing guitarist’s repertoire. In this set you will find The Eagles, Bee Gees, John Denver, and Alabama, as well as timeless standards all arranged at around an intermediate level. This set has over sixteen hours of professional guitar instruction describing every note, finger, and string used to play these professional sounding arrangements, and you will learn them all completely “by ear” without music, tab, or video!

From James Taylor to Jim Brickman, you will find a wide variety of tasteful piano solo lessons in this Piano By Ear: Pop and Standards Box Set. The styles covered in this set cover country, pop, adult contemporary, and oldies. Some of these solos get close to the advanced level, so this set is most suitable for adult students who have been playing for over three years.

In this lesson, you will learn a late intermediate piano solo of the standard “Stars Fell on Alabama”. This lesson includes a full demonstration of the arrangement — with backing tracks — followed by a detailed “by ear” lesson on how to play the solo. At the end of the lesson, you are given the backing tracks without the solo piano on them to perform the solo with. What an easy and fun way to learn this pop/jazz classic!

Beatles, Clapton, Latino, Country, and Gospel are all in this fusion box set, and every song has something every serious guitar player will want to know how to play. This set contains over seventeen hours of high-quality, all-audio instruction that will teach you essential blues licks, standard rhythm patterns, and great arpeggio accompaniments. This box set is also loaded with accompaniment tracks for you to play along with once you have learned the songs.

In this “by ear” lesson, you will learn both the acoustic and electric guitar parts to this famous and woeful rock ballad by one of the greatest guitarists of the ’70s and ’80s. At the beginning of the lesson, there is a full demonstration of the song to listen to and practice with, followed by a detailed all-audio lesson on every lick of every section for both guitar parts. At the end of the lesson, there are three different versions of the backing tracks to play along with.

This Latin-style hit has been sung and played for decades and it doesn’t look like it will ever go away (and that is a good thing!). In this lesson, you will learn an intermediate level arrangement of this super song without using print, music, or video. The lesson starts with a full demonstration of the song followed by a detailed “by ear” lesson demonstrating and explaining every phrase and note of the song. What a fast and easy way to learn a really great song!

This is a lesson on the Pete Huttlinger arrangement of this gospel standard. The entire arrangement is played for you and then taught in two- to four-measure sections completely “by ear”. A Bill Brown arrangement of this song, using a boogie bass, is also available from Guitar by Ear.

If you have just learned the basics of the banjo, then you should definitely start working on this Woody Guthrie classic! In this lesson you are given a full demonstration of the song at two different speeds followed by a detailed “by ear” lesson over every lick of the arrangement. At the end of the lesson there are backing tracks at two different speeds for you to practice and perform with.

In this lesson, Bill Brown will teach you the arrangement of “Over the Rainbow” he still uses to this day. This is an intermediate level fingerstyle solo for those of you who have been playing over two years. The song is fully demonstrated, and then, Bill works you through the entire arrangement in two- to four-measure sections completely “by ear".

Learn both the rhythm and lead guitar parts to this classic rock hit by CCR without using any music, tab, or video! The entire lesson is taught “by ear” in two- to four-measure sections, and demonstration and backing tracks are included to practice and perform with.

This classic rock standard is fun and easy to learn! In this lesson, the student learns the rhythm and lead guitar parts completely “by ear” using no music, tab, or video. The lesson starts with a full demonstration of the song followed by a detailed lesson of every phrase and lick. At the end of the lesson there are backing tracks in three different configurations for live performance! This song is rated as a level one arrangement.

The Christmas season would be incomplete without this standard by Emile Waldteufel. In this lesson, you will get a full demonstration of the arrangement followed by a detailed “by ear” lesson of the song in two to four measure groups.

This fun and upbeat Christmas standard is an easy one to add to your repertoire when you learn it “by ear”! The lesson starts with a full demonstration of the arrangement followed by a detailed, note-by-note description of the entire song.

Tomaso Albinoni was a Baroque era composer of primarily operas and yet his most famous piece is this simple and beautiful adagio for the piano. This lesson includes a full demonstration of the song followed by a detailed “by ear” lesson describing every note and its fingering in two to four measure sections. When you learn a song by ear, you learn it faster and you memorize it as you are learning it.