Am 25.05.2020 um 18:09 schrieb Frank Krygowski:
On 5/24/2020 9:24 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

I play piano and keyboard synthesizer, but somewhere along the line, I
forgot to learn how to read music.Â* So, I play by ear and don't need
music paper.

I play by ear too, but I find that sheet music is a useful resource, if
only for reminders of how a tune starts. Give me the first measure or
two (the "incipits") and I'm good to go on many, many tunes. But I have
"the dots" for hundreds stored in an app on my phone. I'm a competent
reader.

As a kid, I played "real" piano pieces, not just tues, all off by heart
(once I'd learned them). After a break of a few years (after losing my
music scores at some relocation) I found I could start and play the
first bits, sometimes three bars, sometimes five pages.

Then I needed to find the scores on the internet, and looking at the
paper allowed my to re-learn the easier ones quite quickly, the one I
failed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iky27JBcAbE showed me my brain
capacity is not infinite (my son is playing that one now, as a school
kid he can still learn this large number of notes in a few days).