Hello,
so I've been considering learning the piano quite a long time now, but only got to it just recently. I thought it would be really beneficial if I learned all the pieces by ear. But now, after my the first piece, I feel like it's too much. I've also been playing the guitar for 4 years and the bass guitar for 1,5 years. I try to learn all my bass lines by ear, which isn't that hard and I thought, why not do the same with piano. As it turned out, my aural skills are still at quite the low level. With sight reading, I'd have free will. I'd like to be a great musician someday, hopefully a jazz pianist and learning by ear seems the right way for this. I feel like learning by sight-reading is of much less benefit than learning by ear. What do you think? I'm starting to lean toward sight-reading, considering the fact that I'm a beginner self-taught pianist, I might just be overestimating my skills here.
And how would comment the access to sheet music in Internet? And maybe if you knew some good resource for sight-reading for the piano, it wouldn't hurt tossing it here, preferably in book form.
Thanks in advance!