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How good are your music reading skills ?
Do you read both keys ?
How fast do you read ?

k

ok, me first  ::)
I read both keys and in real time
Azell allso read both keys but has a hard time to keep up in realtime in the bass key

k

By keys do you mean what we on this side of the pond call staffs?

If so I’m going to assume you mean the bass and treble (F and G) staffs.

Correct?

Yes that's what I mean

k

me too  :-[
...and since I haven't had any practice since school times it's very hard for me to keep up with music with many variations and accidents...

Yes. But just well enough to get by.

I can read both keys but, veeeeery sloooooowly  ;D

Man, I hardly make any use of it at all so no wonder.

Yeah, I use the ability less and less too.
Need more practice to be as good at it as I used to be, but I can read both clefs at the same time.

I can read the treble/G clef in real time.

I can read the bass/F clef but I read it extremely slow! 

I read Music, but I can not play in real Time! I mean that I must learn a Song first reading it again and again and then play it ;)

I can read both, but pretty slowly. It's makes it possible to sit and learn something froma piece of sheet music, but I would fair poorly if I had to try and play something right off the page.

I used to able to read a bit of the bass-key but not anymore and never in real time, just never could understand the rhythm of the notes.

Being only a lead guitar I play by Tab. (numbers) Problem with Tab is timing. It does not show the timing of a note all that well but, I can see the Tab and the sheet music notes at the same time and use the notes for the timing. Why I don’t just use the notes? Beats me. I could save a lot of print out sheets not using the Tab.

My Mom taught me the theory of musical notation, but I never applied it. There is the outside chance that I could read the treble cleff if someone put a gun to my head.... ;D

Not learning to read, is my greatest musical regret.

Mick

Trying to learn to read is my greatest musical regret  :D

I have never tried to learn it actually...do i need it?

I have thought about it, maybe it would have been a nice thing to learn, but i doubt i would use it that much.

Better to know how & never need it, than the opposite!


Mick

a long time ago I did

I'm not sure when I stopped needing to.
I've only used notation to compose, but in the last few years
I hardly bother with that process.

By the time I'vew read it through a  few times, and started to do some slow fingering I find I've also started to memorise it!

The attempt to read while playing pretty much stops there :P

I started years ago with classical guitar, and sometimes It took days and days to completely decode  (:D) the whole piece. Now, I am.... not much better :) but I like it to know that, if I want, I can, with a notation dictionary of course (sometimes to see what does that  weird shape means etc. )) In real time ? It's a mystery to me.