Interesting take that I "crapped all over her idea". Particularly that part where I said "Yes. There will be a market for it. I just won't be in it, but she already acknowledged that this isn't aimed at someone with now over 64 years of experience and a degree in the field. This is aimed at the "campfire" player. Run with it and see how it goes."

Run with it and see how it goes is crapping all over it?

Once again J3s lack of reading comprehension and general intelligence shows, as well as his desire to impugn anything I say (look it up) and immediately turn to personal attacks. Typical internet child.

You guys who went off immediately turned to "You don't have to know theory to play." Absolutely right! However, unless you HAVE that theory framework, you can't really know how much it helps. It's not my fault when people don't have the opportunity or desire to experience secondary education. My family couldn't afford to send me to college. I traded 3 years of military service so I could attend on the GI Bill. After one year I was offered a scholarship, and I took advantage of the opportunity.

Let me throw a word at you. "Conflating". That is the practice of taking two somewhat related but completely different things and making them one.

Consider this. Was it a prerequisite for Al Unser, Mario Andretti, AJ Foyt and all the other great drivers to know how to build the engines in their cars? Or was it a prerequisite for the engineers who built the engines to be great drivers? Sure they drove a car to get to the shop or the track, but that calls for a working definition of "driving", like saying someone can play guitar calls for a working definition of "playing". For me, someone who can only strum a few basic chords does not know how to "play" the guitar. In a literal sense, yes they are playing a guitar. And if that is their goal, to play just that well, they have succeeded. Many of us here aspired to play music professionally when we were young. We had to go well beyond those few basic chords to attempt it. Steve Vai can play a guitar. Lee Ritenaur can play a guitar. Chet Atkins could play a guitar. Are you flamers even remotely aware that you can get a degree in music theory without ever touching an instrument? Inversely you can get a degree in performance without studying theory. (But it helps.)

Don't conflate driving and building race cars. Don't conflate learning music and playing an instrument. J3 immediately resorted to his usual manner of personal attacks, included pointing out that many people play "miles" better than me. (What a great musical pun you didn't know you were making, that pun being MILES Davis.) Dude, at the HEIGHT of my career I was not great. Very good, but never great. And now that I have the typical old age physical maladies in play, I am worse than ever. But I didn't have to give my degree back when arthritis made it impossible for me to hold a guitar pick or stretch an octave on a keyboard. I don't know his background, nor do I care about him or his opinions about me. The only one I ever have to impress is me. I am not everybody's cup of tea, but I am the only one who has to drink it. There's an ignore feature here. Feel free to use it.

While you are looking up "conflate" in your online dictionary, also look up "myopic". Let me help you. It means many things, but one of them is "able to only see things one way". Another is "narrow-minded".