No. no....I don't disagree with that. That's what I was talking about in the previous post. I just meant you should at LEAST be able to read, in the context of being able to read music vs ONLY reading tab, which was the original point of the thread. I will learn some classical pieces with tabs, but I'll ONLY get music that also has music notation above so I can follow.

I agree with you 100%. In fact, I'm part of a professional choir, and I'm being reminded that they are not even independent of each other. The scores are so complex and in multi-part that reading music and "blending" music is the same thing. I'm pretty good at reading too, but this is challenging me...I had to ask someone what a time signature of: "2/4 (3/8) " meant last rehearsal! lol