by ear vs unstudied

by ear

prep
  • To do by guessing, to improvise. 

  • To play (an instrument) or sing or to learn music without reading or memorizing sheet music; to learn a language without instruction. 

unstudied

adj
  • Free of artifice or cunning; innocent, spontaneous and unaffected. 

  • Not gained by study. 

  • Not studied. 

How often have the words by ear and unstudied occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )