Can you read music?

As a singer, knowing how to read music really does help--it helps you learn where your line is, what you are supposed to sing and when, and how your line fits with all the others

 

I can read, although it takes me a bit longer than I would like to. If I read through it a good two times, I could read it easily. As for by ear, I don't like doing that for harder tracks, but for easier tracks, it's really easy.

 

I can barely read music. I've just forgotten over the years, and it's pretty difficult for me nowadays. Just Dos and Res now.

 

I can. I've been musically trained since very young, so if I'm not able to read music now, I must've learnt nothing after all these years and all those piano lessons would've gone to waste. Sight reading's not my strongest point though, but I can get the general melody and structure of the piece during the first few plays. That's where listening comes in handy. I feel that listening to the music beforehand makes it easier for me to read and pick up a new piece.

 

I can... Just a little. Enough to say I can, but not enough to be practical.

 

I was trained to play piano while a child, and thus I was taught to read sheet music. In the short time that I played I became quite skilled, though my abilities with the piano have long since atrophied. I can still read sheet music proficiently, though.

 

I think I'm in the exact opposite situation as the question asks: I can read regular sheet music just fine (experienced reading violin and piano), but I have no idea how to read guitar tabs or drum music. I can only backwards-interpret music to be traditional European-style music notes, not as any other kind of written representation of musical sound.

But then again I don't know how to play guitar or drums at all to need to know how to read their music. All I can do in those is play air-drum flailing my arms around at invisible drums and cymbals. While driving. At night. Distracted by awesome heavy metal.

 

I've been taking piano lessons since I was a little kid, so I can read sheet music pretty well. But if the notes go past the five bars, I'll need to count the notes.