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It isn't impossible but reading music and tab can be a little trying at times. Forget the lyrics can't keep the words straight.
Henry







1985 MCI SD-10 4x4, The Blue Lady
Peavey Nashville 112.

Em, ta oen tmie!

Seriously...I had it when I was a kid, affected my school work too. Luckily, old age has taken it away for the most part, and given me a whole new line of problems. I now put it under the heading of "things that corrected themselves before we really knew what the problem was". (Like the "oncoming ice-age" they predicted back in the early '70s.)

That is why I stink a playing. Reading tab and that peskie number system. Now, when I look at the fret board it makes sense so go figure!

I read constantly to keep it at bay,
and write here more often than most to keep
my external communication skills functioning.

Praise the lord for edit functions!!
And Steve Jobs for macs!

I have read bass clef at just passable classical levels,
and in the same period of heavy reading could do the same to jazz standards.
But it's a use it a lot or lose it fast kinda thing.

If I don't read music for some time,
I can forget where G or F is.
I KNOW it, but yet it doesn't process
from the vision thing right.
Till I get back into it regularly.

I often joined classical chamber groups
that I didn't much like musically,
because it kept my reading working.

I took a month off in Feb 1973
and did Outward Bound for 23 days,
no reading at all to speak of.
I got back and could barely finish
the Boston Globe in a day.
After 2 weeks ity got better.

At that point I decided read anything
as often as possible. It also is NO help
learning new languages of course.

I'll have a minor bout every now and then. My favorite graffiti from a baroom bathroom is: Dylsexics Untie !

So this dyslexic walks into a bra...

Dyslexia for Cure Found!

SO what exactly is aixelsyd anyway?

John:
Yes, definitely I’m lost without my word processor with its grammar and spelling checker. It detects about 80% of my errors. How smooth the process goes depends a great deal with how tired I am. With music I have to have the melody in my head then work it out on the guitar, my way. That’s the problem I have with tab, trying to play it like it been written. For some reason I can’t make it sound like anything. Once I got the melody I can play it but it’s nothing like the tab.

David:
I too have to keep writing and reading or I quickly degrade.

Bo:
Dyslexia is a learning disability that you are born with. People with it have problem decoding written and spoken language. Dyslexics have problems reading, spelling and tend to think in terms of images. This doesn’t look right, which way does the loop on b or d belong, which way is 5 or 3, or what sentence line is this word on. The part of the brain that process language doesn’t function and another part takes over. The result being processing time is much longer and in the rush things get distorted. Today, children have a much better time of it, in school. Because there are tools to help them, which were not available when I went to school. I survived school somehow but, in no way was it a happy experience.

What does a dyslexic aethiest insomniac do all night?
Lies there wide awake wondering if there really is a DOG...thwapp!.(sound of mickey being slapped)...Oh well too many years playing SRAB i guess....

Dyslexia has absolutely nothing to do with functional intelegence.
And everything to do with symbol/meaning recognition.
It can mean an ongoing lifelong battle,
to keep the recognition functions/translator sharp.

But that SAME battle to keep it working,
ALSO, as a side effect, imparts a great
deal of information for the dyslexic
succesfully keeping it at bay.

Vice P. Nelson Rockefeller had it worse than most.
In his day he dealt with it through secretaries
and staff with great verbal skills.
How he dealt with the secretaries is another story...

Count me in the Dyslexics group. Sometimes when I press a pedal when I should have pressed a knee lever, I can't help but wander if that is caused by my Dyslexia kikkin' in HA!

Gregg

ciselsyd ton ma I.