Can anyone read and write music?

Yep, can read & write music, although not done so for a really long time.
It's fairly easy once you get into it.
First played piano when I was in single digits & continued to do so for some years, off & on.

It was weird teaching myself guitar when books show Tabs. It was like an alien language.
 
Thanks for the input...I wasn't expecting that many people to read and write music!

I play a few instruments...Piano, Guitar, Drums etc..in my home studio but fear I may be to stuck in my ways...

I'm finding it tricky to know where to start tbh..

do you knopw the note names on your piano/guitar? that's all you need to transfer it on to paper really.....you just need to learn to read music to be able to write it!

if none of it makes sense like how long the notes last for/when to play them/chord names/timing then you need to look at some theory this website is quite good https://www.musictheory.net/lessons
 
I was wondering if anyone could read and write music?

I just watched Eat that question a new Frank Zappa Documentary and Its inspired me to maybe have a bash at learning how to do it...

Read it, some of it. Treble clef no trouble, bass clef requires a double take, basically transpose a couple of staves and you're there though. Its a bit like reading text once upon a time you couldn't make sense of it and then one day it just clicks in the brain.

Spent way to much time on musical keyboards when I was a kid...

"Every Good Boy Deserves Football"

"FACE"

and all that...; )

Heh, "Eat Good Bread Dear Father" is the one I heard
 
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I was wondering if anyone could read and write music?

I just watched Eat that question a new Frank Zappa Documentary and Its inspired me to maybe have a bash at learning how to do it...

You're picking on the wrong artist.
There is a story where he booked the New York Philharmonic and they turned up in jeans.
He gave them the music, they sat there puzzled so he sent them away, told them to come back dressed properly and he would teach them how to play it :)
Also remember it took the skill of a young Steve Vai to be able to transcript his music which got him a job.
 
I don't understand....

Philharmonic couldn't understand the way he had written down the music? Were expecting simple/relaxed environment so turned up in jeans?
Or it wasn't written down at all and needed transcribed by Steve Vai!?

Here's Steve Vai with the Karate Kid. Crossroads...good film!

https://youtu.be/uYW177hXFE8
 
I don't understand....

Philharmonic couldn't understand the way he had written down the music? Were expecting simple/relaxed environment so turned up in jeans?

Yes and yes.
Zappa is a musical genius and writes in very strange timings, when they looked at it they couldn't understand it because they are used to playing on the bar etc.
They basically turned up showing a rock musician no respect.
 
Can do both and can compose. Interesting fact, almost all modern pop songs are based around 3, and if you're lukcy, 4 chords (effectively notes). That's it
 
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