Sight Reading or Playing by Ear ?

• I started backwards when it comes  to the subject of  Music Theory even though I did take keyboards in High School, didn’t really do to well I had my own version of Mary Had little Lamb! (lol) I use to play the vocal part of songs on the guitar when I was young.That’s how I  learned to play by ear, it might have trained me to do other things as well. Since learning how to play music is about training your mind and body, your finger have to get used to moving up and down a fret board. It is important for those who are formally trained to learn how to play by ear, you might be creating out the box, what you gonna do ? put the world on pause until somebody writes it down for you, and it is important to learn how to sight read, at least well enough were you can communicate your Ideals to others and yes there are lots away to get around all of  this with all the new soft ware they got, but the goal is to become a great Musician and in the long run it will help u and not hurt u, remember if you can hum it you can play it and  everybody who plays by ear should invest in a good music theory book,I love studying music theory, so  I can become a better musician. The question is not do you practice, but what do u practice, you can’t go wrong practicing sight reading and playing by ear.

Listen to Uptown Down, by Simply Mike V

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