Re: yea

> I must take issue with this.  I know quite a few excellent guitarists
> (as well as other musicians) who cannot read a note of music, but that
> does not negate their ability.  They can still play well (some of them
> boggle my mind with not only thier skill, but their compositional
> ability), but they merely cannot put it on paper.  I guess a good
> analogy would be the aural traditions of various cultures- the story
> telling is still there; it was just never written down.  I am not saying
> that it is a bad thing to be able to read music- I think it is a very
> good ability to have- I just think that a person should not be written
> off as a musician merely because s/he has not mastered one aspect of it.
> That is sort of like saying a person cannot communicate at all just
> because s/he canot read.  This is just not true- all it really says is
> that one medium has not been mastered.
> I encourage all musicians to learn to read music if they cannot already,
> but I am not going to discount their talents merely because of this
> shortcoming.  If I did, I would be doing a GREAT injustice to many very
> competent musicians.

well, i think you have a very valid point. i'm just wondering, why do they
not want to learn music? i think its because they just dont want to take the
time, which shows lack of effort. i'm not saying their bad at guitar because
they can't read music, i think they could be pretty good without that
abbillity, but my point is that if they feel they dont need to, its sorta
insulting guitars and music. just my 10 cents