"I'm certainly not a 'natural' musician but over the years I've developed the ability to instinctively work out the chord sequence (or the chords that fit)for any song I want to sing."

Oh, but you are, you just don't want to admit it...

"Presumably it was a mark of 'f*lk credibility' to be unable to read off the melody from the notation given but I really do think this is just so much pretentious nonsense. Sight reading and basic harmony are just skills that make musical communication and learning simpler. ... SNIP ... part of the problem is the fixation held by some that any formal musical knowledge is just not f*lk. "

I agree. The more experienced a muso, the more they know, even if they just pick it up as they go along.

The pretentious ignoramuses are just mentally f**ked up...

:~)