yo all. time once again for my monthly yadas. zuki, here's my humble take on things. first of all, a friend of mine and i have basically started playing keyboard together and taught each other along the way. funny thing is that he is a totally ear person who rarely plays lead and loves harmony and is awesome figuring out bass while i am strictly a leadist, if you will and i have limited albeit growing skills with ear. all the songs i know with a few exceptions i learnt from sheet music. it really isn't all that hard to pick up; i picked up the basics in two hours and i'm no genius or prodigy. the sight reading is mainly having a very good knowledge of the timing. anyone can play the notes to any song, its the tempo and length of each note that makes all the difference. so if you want to work on sight reading, concenrate on having down cold all the time signatures etc. i hope that my rambling has helped you in some way. Zack