My former piano teacher tells me that these non-traditional systems enable people to learn specific stuff fluently and quickly but it engenders various habits that are difficult to unlearn, and limits people's development.
Personally I believe there's no substitute to doing serious amounts of repetition of stuff that you're trying to learn to get it fluent, and using your ears (and on the piano to a lesser extent eyes) to get it. Personally I'm happiest when I'm able to step away from the sheet music, but I also read to an intermediate level.
It turned out what got me much more fluent with sheet music reading was copying out some scores that were a little bit of a stretch for me, at the time, due to having multiple performances of same music at short notice.
For most music I play (I'm on sax in a couple of street bands) I much prefer to have internalised the music and be able to operate from memory based on knowing the key and some intuition of the harmonic structure. In fact if I know a tune too well the sheet music starts to throw me if I try reading and playing.
Intuition is important. The fact that I already had good intuition on the sax, but that it was a struggle on the piano is what made me stop piano lessons because getting better at piano was eating in to my getting better at the sax time too much.
Personally I believe there's no substitute to doing serious amounts of repetition of stuff that you're trying to learn to get it fluent, and using your ears (and on the piano to a lesser extent eyes) to get it. Personally I'm happiest when I'm able to step away from the sheet music, but I also read to an intermediate level.
It turned out what got me much more fluent with sheet music reading was copying out some scores that were a little bit of a stretch for me, at the time, due to having multiple performances of same music at short notice.
For most music I play (I'm on sax in a couple of street bands) I much prefer to have internalised the music and be able to operate from memory based on knowing the key and some intuition of the harmonic structure. In fact if I know a tune too well the sheet music starts to throw me if I try reading and playing.
Intuition is important. The fact that I already had good intuition on the sax, but that it was a struggle on the piano is what made me stop piano lessons because getting better at piano was eating in to my getting better at the sax time too much.