Also, when I was talking about "reading notes" I didn't mean by site reading a flash card set. That is rote memory, or playing out of a second or third level piano book. I was refering to the ability to open up a piece of music at intermediate-advance level (The Piano Guild has a different means of levels) and playing it correctly without error. In other words, reading music as easily as reading an intermediate book.
I was for sure not talking about advance reading and mentioned the 1st primer only. I just agreed with crisc that our boys may find reading notes more interesting than playing themselves and that that part comes quite easily to them.
