The musical instrument analogy can be taken the other way, though. After you’ve spent years learning to sight read, you can play almost anything right away if

The musical instrument analogy can be taken the other way, though. After you’ve spent years learning to sight read, you can play almost anything right away if you have the sheet music, even if you’ve never heard it before. Or after you’ve spent years learning to play by ear, you can play any tune you know from memory, or jam along to almost anything.