Why Read Music? I Can Play OK

I wanted to share a few thoughts on reading music. I think it is essential to being a well rounded musician and it can really help in learning a new tune.

Often I have one particular song I want to learn and really want the easiest way to find it and learn it quickly. I go to musicnotes.com and there I search for the song. If it is available it costs about $4 at this writing to print it out at home. I can listen to it first at various tempos and keys with the player they provide.

I can also download it in any key. Than I can get to work learning  it.

I am not an affiliate of musicnotes, I just love it and use it to demonstrate the point of how knowing how to read music helps my music learning process.

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Thanks for reading