I saw a video where Dave Grohl was talking about how he can’t read music. How does that work if he’s writing and performing songs?
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Reading music is playing something that has already been written.
The process of creating (writing) a new song comes before the process of writing it down as sheet music, so can be accomplished without reading.
Playing an instrument does not require the player to read. One can learn by ear and by touch. A whole band can function like this. Many of the swing era big bands worked with ‘head’ arrangements, where the musicians played from memory what they had learned, rather than reading it each time
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