On a job I turned to the song I wanted to play, pressed the right buttons on my keyboard and played the whole song with no hesitation. When I glanced back at the music it was not the song that I just played. ???????

Years back, way back I worked with an accordion player who sat upright in a chair with his music book on the stand; never stopped looking at his notes. In the middle of a set I snatched the book off the stand and he finished the set with no problem. He never used a book, chair or a music stand again.

That says it all; it comes down to how much time am I willing to spend memorizing? How important is it to me?

John C.