Hi everyone! Well, I know that if someone, for example, listens a song and then plays it on the piano, he is playing by ear, right?But what about if a pianist learns a sonata from the sheet music, and then listens to a recording multiple times, and then when he plays the sonata he is trying to make it sound like the recording (maybe unconscious). This also counts as playing by ear? Even if he is following the sheet music in front of him?lass.
This also counts as playing by ear?