Dear Gargoyle, how right you are! All those folks who approach learning to read music with trepidation need is a swift kick in the pants. Stupidly, I never realised just how "biased" my views were (especially since I apparently have wasted literally thousands of words here on Mudcat, trying to HELP demystify those little "henscratches and flyspecks" (as Pete Seeger calls music notation). Instead I've been "frightening them off", oh, and advocating some kind of "elitist" point of view. Ahh, perhaps in the "old Mudcat" I'd have been put in my place quickly, before all this damage could have been done. I'll leave this thread quietly now.

Rick