Re: learning mandolin and learning to read music?
I learned to read music over 30 years ago playing saxaphone in school and then hadn't used it for squat since.
When I picked up the mandolin the first sheet music I found had TAB and normal notation. Within minutes I was relating the two and within a week I was plucking along with simple fiddle sheet music from my wife's collection.
Its a tool that will sit in your pocket until you need it and while it isn't the only tool that can get you where you want to go there will be times when its the best one, I'm sure.
Besides, TAB is harder to transpose than normal sheet music. At least for me it is.
My advice? Search youtube for music theory or music reading videos and set a foot on the path. If you find it the least bit interesting, keep going.
My GFs: Collings MF, Mandobird VIII, Mando-Strat, soprano & baritone ukuleles tuned to GDAE and a Martin X1-DE Guitar.
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