But when there is a universal language already in place, why bother? If you don’t have a perfect memory, you can develop your own notation. Written music offers a record of anything you have ever learned, or plan to learn. If you read the music, you will know instantly what the notes are and how they are supposed to be played, ready to get on with it.Ī permanent memory aid. Playing by ear means remembering everything you ever decided to learn. If you can’t read music, you need to slow it down, play over and over, and still be unsure if you have heard it correctly. Say you hear a piece of music and you want to learn how to play it. It is especially tough to identify one note among many, or a rapid succession. This is a powerful skill, but even pianists who spent years developing their ear will have difficulty sometimes. But learning by ear alone requires training to identify notes, intervals and chords at an advanced level. Reading removes doubt. Your “musical ear” develops naturally over time. Since written music is widely available online, learning to sight read music gives you the ability to immediately play practically anything. It takes time and practice, but eventually if you have the written music, you can play it. Sight reading. This is the ability to read a piece of music for the first time and play as you go, as easy as reading this sentence out loud. Work systematically, gradually build up knowledge of new notation, and you will be surprised how quickly you understand literally everything. Notation may look like lines and dots on a page right now, but you will be reading and playing your first piece of music in no time.
But if the only downside to learning is time and effort, it’s worth stressing that it doesn’t take that long.
It’s quicker than you think. This isn’t strictly a “good thing”. In the long term, however, being able to read music holds a range of benefits, and you limit yourself without them. Like any language, you can get by without taking the time to read or write, especially in the beginning. But there are plenty who wish they had learned earlier. We challenge you to find a pianist who learned to read music and regretted it.
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