Gregg Bissonette - Playing, Reading and Soloing with a Band (1993) 

Unless one is working in a situation where someone else is writing parts for them it's useless. Like you were just Soo lucky to land that type of gig like orchestra/ studio jingles/ Top TV Show gigs which very few people get. Even those guys get into things where writing things down would just be more labor than memorizing in the short term cause in most normal bands we go over songs multiple times. And then others either scrap or change parts constantly. Anyone got an option to write it down later but in the heat of battle?" Ok I got everything else right? But Oh! hold on I gotta grab my notebook and stand or laptop program to write this bridge part down so I don't forget/ have something to look at when we get to that part cause I can't remember it?" I've Never Seen That From Any Musicians. Nobody gonna work to death writing or programming things in that are subject to change on a whim. Now once someone says: " That's It"? Now you can set it in stone. Or So Ya Think. Your bassist might change something next week again. At that point yer better off just recording it and listening back yer gonna do that anyway. Where I would say it's good is for self knowledge, self practice, you don't know any parts of the band you are auditioning for( Rare), or if you're the one writing all the music for everyone else. And good luck to them dealing with you or liking you. Better have deeper pockets and clout from somewhere.

Total agree! Absotely agree! 🫡

The late Jaco Pastorius was kind of like that -- hear a tune one time, and he's got it.

​@shawnhapney8784 ime it's a combo of things. Writing being a huge help, like if I can shorthand scribble down a rough structure of what's confusing me, I'll be a lot more prepped in the future since that's one extra way of encoding the info. Tho JUST writing and reading isn't enough. Like you say, it's essential to be able to listen and encode in ways other than writing or reading a part. It's essential to making things feel natural and not stiff and mechanical. Vinnie Colaiuta said something like "if I don't know what's coming next every time I'm reading a chart it's pointless. I'm already lost." There's a lot of wisdom in that imo, it's not just the chart or listening or memorizing. It's all three working as in unity.