Originally Posted By: Planobilly
Everyone should feel free to make music in anyway they see fit.


Did you totally miss the concept here? Nobody said that not learning music means borders or limitations., The entire thread is full of people essentially saying "Yes you can hack around and play by ear and learn a song every 2 weeks or you can invest 10 weeks of your time, learn the basic basics of music, and learn 10 a day.

You can also stumble your way though building a big brick barbecue with no masonry skills, but wouldn't it go faster, and end up better, if you took a class? Particularly when you consider that trying to learn as you go means that the lowest courses of brick, the foundation of the whole thing, is where you have the greatest potential for errors. But how solid would all those courses of brick above be of you had a good foundation? By the top courses you would be laying that brick faster and better.

I have never seen a group of people with such tunnel vision. The people who don't read are the ones becoming defensive about their own skills set and jumping to the defense of other non readers by pointing out THREE people who can't read and succeeded. Do you people get the concept of "specifics" versus "generalities"? Wow. Nobody is saying you are a lesser player or a lesser person. Just that knowledge is power in every situation, so why not gather as much knowledge as you can in a field you obviously have some passion about?

Last edited by eddie1261; 02/07/19 04:30 AM.