Hi Mike,

I did reach the 'crawling' level of notation, and sometimes use it when I start writing from humming a melody acapella, to edit the notes. But more often I just work with notation when correcting the midi transcription software, which is not that often, either.

But I just loove the aestethics of a handwritten leadsheet. I have made just a few, and when I look at them I just can't believe that I have arranged the notes into something others can understand on paper.

Notation in general is a lost art, but kind of nice-to-know, if not need-to. It would be hard to share and work with theoretical insights in your editing, without notation.