Having tried to learn to read the dots several times I find it frustrating that the sense of it still eludes me - but sometimes - just sometimes - I am so glad that it is still a closed book to me and that my music is just the music and not the dots.

It does mean that I sometimes have to make up a tune because the dots stubbornly refuse to become a tune.

Perhaps that is no bad thing, the world could do with a few more tunes - but if you want them you will have to do the man on the bicycle thing and come along to catch the tune out of the air.