Hey Eddie...good thread. What if you can read, but only on an instrument you don't play? grin I learned my music theory and reading ability in high school band...on sax. My instruments now are guitar, banjo, and pedal steel, other strings, a bit of keys. So in reality reading does me no good. My experience in a commercial studio is that chord charts are the norm unless you have a string or horn section that NEEDS standard notation. Otherwise you don't bring in great players so you can tell them what to play. You give 'em a bit of general direction, let 'em hear the song and turn 'em loose. When I did my first original album back in '85 I hired platinum producer, Jim Mason (Poco, Firefall) and the education I got on producing, logistics, tracking, mixing etc. was some of the best money I ever spent in my life. But reading...not so much.

Bob

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