Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is

Richard 'Wazz'-Pianist & Composer. I have been a musician since the age of 5. As a young child, it was discovered (by chance), that I possessed the musical phenomena of 'Perfect Pitch'. I was categorized as being 'musically gifted' and labeled a 'child prodigy'. Yikes!

And so, I was enrolled into both- The Manhattan School of Music & The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music; they were called at the time.

I began to study music theory, and began the task of learning to read music. Upon my initial exposure to rudimentary classical tunes/rewrites of Mozart, Chopin, and the like. It became apparent that, despite my difficulty to advance in my reading ability--I was uncannily able to mimic my teacher's 'model playing' (the sheet music) -- by simply hearing the melody. Then, I would immediately mimic what I heard-- with perfect precision. I was not really reading the music-but playing 'by ear'. I was able to 'fool' the instructor; for only so long. It was inevitable that I would be found out...

It turns out that the reason that I had difficulty in advancing in sight reading music was because I had a form of dyslexia. The musical notes would jump around on the sheet music pages. I truly struggled.