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<blockquote data-quote="richardr" data-source="post: 348885" data-attributes="member: 4277">I see [USER=4016]@Veggie Dave[/USER] &#039;s point. I&#039;ve always taken &quot;reading music&quot; as the skill of sight reading - playing a piece of music straight off from a sheet of dots without prior knowledge of how it goes. I can&#039;t do that and never will but I do refer to sheet music quite frequently, most often to find out what my start note is before I play the rest of the tune by ear. Even if the sheet of music isn&#039;t in the same key as I need, by reference to the key signature I can work out whether the start note&#039;s a 3rd, a 5th or whatever and thus find the note I need in the right key. Is this sort of reading what [USER=4016]@Veggie Dave[/USER] means?I&#039;ve read that some of my jazz heroes such as Louis Armstrong and Lester Young started playing by &quot;ear&quot; but learned later to read. I wonder what was the level of their reading skills?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="richardr, post: 348885, member: 4277"] I see [USER=4016]@Veggie Dave[/USER] 's point. I've always taken "reading music" as the skill of sight reading - playing a piece of music straight off from a sheet of dots without prior knowledge of how it goes. I can't do that and never will but I do refer to sheet music quite frequently, most often to find out what my start note is before I play the rest of the tune by ear. Even if the sheet of music isn't in the same key as I need, by reference to the key signature I can work out whether the start note's a 3rd, a 5th or whatever and thus find the note I need in the right key. Is this sort of reading what [USER=4016]@Veggie Dave[/USER] means? I've read that some of my jazz heroes such as Louis Armstrong and Lester Young started playing by "ear" but learned later to read. I wonder what was the level of their reading skills? [/QUOTE]

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