Squeak, Yea. send me a piano solo. Would love to hear it. I am not knocking musicians that are self-taught. We are way off thread here, but I think there are many that would disagree with Flavie. Taking lessons gives you musical knowledge, so you know why you are playing certain notes and chords and this gives a musician the tools to build on. On the other hand lots of jazz musicans never took lessons. I took one piano lesson recently, and the teacher was not interested in teaching me to read notes.
I am wud like to read notes, but am mostly interested in learning accomapaniment. You don't need to read notes to do that. Just to confuse things further, there are clasically trained piano players that became synth players.
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