As a musician, I'm not much of a musician. Here's my confession: as a sax player, I know I should learn the music by heart and not rely on the 'dots' but that only works for me if I've never seen the dots. Once I've seen them, I find it almost impossible to remember without looking. As a bass player, I can remember, but I learn the parts without much thought for the theory, in spite of that DipMus from the OU. I should know what to play because I should be able to hear what those guitarists are doing and I should be learning to improvise by committing scales to memory and spending serious time working out lines through the chords. And as for looking at TAB - Everyone knows that's a sin! I hang my head in shame (and because it looks better).