[quote name='Bilbo' post='849201' date='May 27 2010, 09:56 AM']I do agree with Jake in principle but I just wanted to flag up the furstration I feel at [b]the amount of time I have to spend working with non-readers who spend so much time flapping about trying to learn/remember/explain pieces to each other.[/b] I reitterate a point I made here before. Writing and reading dots helps you get to the good bit (the playing of the thing) more quickly and, in a wholistic sense, helps you get to play more sophistiicated and complex musics more easily. I guess, as I get older and have less time to rehearse, its a great way of saving time.
And, as Iain Ballamy once said to me, 'it takes you places you might otherwise not have gone musically'.[/quote]
This is probably the main reason a lot of people never bother learning to read properly (myself included). It's like learning to speak Latin in order to hold a conversation with your friends - a bit pointless unless they all do the same. If I moved in circles where there were a lot of other readers my outlook would most likely be very different.
As always, it's horses for courses.