It's still useful, provided you check yourself on an instrument first, and then use the instrument to input the 'melody.'

Solfege is a very useful system. I do not think that I could have learned to sight sing at all without it. It is hard, but it does really help your brain.

Why do people even learn to sight sing? For me, I just hear music play inside my head.

@Ivan Maloletkin can you play that music that's inside your head on the instrument without making mistakes?

Personally, I am learning to be able to join a choir and have the ability to sing with friends in a jam session even if I have not played the song before, or to do a harmony. I also find it quite useful for analyzing pieces of music if I do not have an instrument around.

That inner musical ''ear'' you are talking about is something that solfege is known to develop to the next level, so I would encourage you that it is worth it and to not give up.

But also I get that it is confusing, I used to look down on solfege with scorn as a pianist who played the real note names, and did not care to learn, until I wanted to learn how to sing better.

lmfao

@Dima G i can't even play music that I know without making any mistakes. @Benjamin Jack thank you, imma try to not break my computer into four pieces meanwhile.

@Ivan Maloletkin that's what sight-singing is good for—it develops the rails in your brain so that music that you hear internally follows the 12 pitches we know.