Originally Posted By: Notes Norton

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I'd really like to see anybody get a piece of music in TAB of a song they never heard before sight read it. An intense piece of music, but not extremely complicated.

The challenge is on wink


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Notes

I concur TAB, except for possibly a guitar savant, is NOT meant for "real-time" sight reading.

But I would challenge that a majority of people that play music also CANNOT, in "real-time," sight read sheet music.

Here the population I'm using includes ALL people that actually can play music on some instrument and at ONE TIME learned to read, or were taught to read, proper notation. That’s a very large population relative to pro's, semi-pro's, teachers, etc. so I will stand by my "majority" qualifier as true and I WOULD make book on it in Vegas (if someone ever starts a line on it).

Actually,I'm torn on this topic as a whole.

When I do come across people who want to learn to play music (on any instrument) I recommend: they should LEARN to read music, actually they should LEARN MUSIC, period and they should seek out a TEACHER (not me) that believes in that.

But I also recommend that at the same time, above all, they ENJOY playing music. If tabs are all they need to play and enjoy music, so be it.

They VAST majority (using same population) are not going to be LA or Nashville session players, choir leaders, band conductors, symphonic conductors, music teachers, stage performers, club acts, the piano guy (past security) at the Atlanta airport bar (lots of scotch consumed there - grin ), lounge acts, semi-pro's, super stars, or performers of any kind.

Larry

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