Poll: Can You Read?

[Hewitt Huntwork]

I existed in some bygone era when it was "Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit", but maybe that just became too risqué as time passed.

Actually, I learned it as "Every Good Boy Does Fine", but I never met anyone else who learned it that way, so I put the fudge into the poll. Oh, my. That does sound bad, doesn't it?

Anybody learn a different variation?

[Toxikator]

Nuts as it sounds, I can read sequencer, though. LIke I can look at a Piano Roll and audiate the melody with ease. I can picture waveforms and automation curves.

When I sketch songs out in notebooks it's a combination of tabs and little PR-ish horizontal lines to indicate exact notes and basic melodic shape/timing.

Also my "Tabs" are a combo of guitar frets and scale degrees... like I might write "000066665555" and mean "000088887777" but I name by scale degrees.

I think having a personal system works best, because if you're not COMFORTABLE with sheet music it's not going to make your music better, only worse.

[Toxikator]

Elvis' Guitar Broke Down Friday is another one.