I personally would love to be able to read music again. I did when I was 12 years old. I took music lessons on a Piano based instrument and could actually play top 40 songs back then. Of course the 40 year layoff killed that.
I had a coworker who had a side profession as a band leader. He also played keyboard based instruments and had a very successful Wedding orchestra. One Christmas he brought a keyboard into the office and played for 4 hours. It was amazing that you could request a song and he had about a 4 inch stack of music. If he didn't know the song by heart he could grab the music and play it. I was truly amazed and asked him about it. He said he could look at the sheet music and basically capture it in his head and away he went.
I can only read tablature and I use it along with the recorded version of the song to get the tempo etc. I find I was trying to play the songs note for note but usually the intro is all you need to play that way, and the rest can be your style. The intro sets up the song usually. I guess starting to learn to read music should be my next step!
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