Do you read sheet music?

[Polfuste]

I play music since more than 30 years now. And i've just enter the sheet reading world, after 20 weeks with a learning book ( "Reading in 15 minuts per day for idiots" ), i can now read and understand (slowly) F and G clef sheets. I've come to this by composition and sharing with bandmates needs. I couldn't be happier to have enter this world. A new motivation to compose, and to transcribe tunes i'm working on. And to understand music more and more. I've just finished transcribe the Bach prelude for cello suite n°1; pretty motivating to work on transcriptions.
I'm working now on improving my reading with bass in hands, and be able to sight read one day.

 

[GodinFan]

I’m a firm believer in being able to read standard notation. I started on guitar, moved to sax, then clarinet, and all of the other winds. Picked up bass in HS. I can now read treble clef, tenor clef, and bass clef fluently. I can readily do sight transpositions of octaves (in treble or bass), up a tone (concert to Bb instruments) up a major 6th (concert to Eb instruments), up a major 9th (concert bass clef to Bb bass clarinet), up a major 13th (concert bass clef to bari sax), and concert tenor clef up a maj 9th (bassoon parts on bass clarinet).

 

[MichelD]

Growing up in and attending school in a rural Canadian village the only formal music instruction I have ever had in my life was about six months of music lessons on clarinet in my last year of high school when the school district finally hired a music teacher.

Pretty much forgot it all and had to try to teach myself how to read again many many years later in adulthood and I can still only barely read enough to get a sheet of simple music in front of me in bass clef when I want to learn a bass line or work out the melody line in treble clef of an old jazz standard my jam group wishes to play.