God said:
Or you could just listen to the song with the tabs up.
If you are trying to sight read you are most likely going to fail.
Thats exactly what I do now lol. Or if I don't have my laptop readily near me when I play, and i'm listening to stereo with an inspiring song that I want to play. I'm motivated to just figure it out by ear.
Lots! of fun that way to me. And it helps you understand how the song was put together, some of the patterns, and you can try and figure out what scales were used and what key it was in, then you can pretty much know the range of notes to play as you go along if you have those things solved.
Everything to do with music is a big part of my life.
I know tons of songs. I have a computer with 4TB of hard drive space completely devoted to my music library, and i've set up all my computers on the network to access the music from that computer. It's great !
It gives you something to do and you learn a lot more if you listen by ear, and try to figure everything out for yourself. How do you think tabs were made anyway? (lol well some of them, others maybe from books or magazines)
I used to know how to read notes, but that skill of mine has disappeared a while ago, and now I use tabs.