I've enjoyed "full underscoring" in dreams sometimes since I was a child.

Problem is usually one of remembering what I heard long enough to get it down.

And -- my propensity to CHANGE that which I've heard as I try to transcribe it! -- Usually my changes are for the worse...

Charlie Parker and several other great musicians and songwriters have made the claim in so many words that they didn't really write nor create their masterpieces, that the "music is out there" and that they really "discover" it.

If you've ever experienced an Autistic child who can play back anything they've heard with exact precision, it will make you think about this phenomenon in most uncertain terms. At least, it does that for me.

Somehow I get the feeling that this music thing is a LOT easier to do than conventional teaching methods or conventional thought allows.

Fascinating subject that I've often devoted a lot of thought about, I think that here we find one of those situations where we don't know what it is that we don't know.

And maybe never will while in the domain of the mortal coil!


--Mac