Originally Posted By: MarioD
It sounds like he started at ground zero and is trying to learn everything at once. But I really give him credit to learning this way.


When you put it that way, it sounds awesome, almost heroic, like Abraham Lincoln trudging through the snow to get a lump of coal to do arithmetic on the back of a shovel.

But I imagine someone sitting in a class, ignoring the teacher and his fellow students, surfing the Internet on his phone and periodically yelling out random questions based on what he finds. If you answer a specific question, he will pop his head up long enough to record your answer, argue with you, mention something he wants, then dive back into surfing the Internet (which he has called the "best teacher".)

Maybe I'm being unkind, but I see a serious problem with this approach to "learning", as evidenced by the extremely odd title of this thread.

Of course, surf the Internet and you will encounter a barrage of marketing from companies promising to teach you how to write 100 songs a day with zero knowledge of music. They will mock the "old fashioned" ways and assure you you don't need ANY of that to emit Monetizeable Musical Material. BIAB and Scaler will help you automate the entire process! Once you learn the software you can plug one program into the other and have your computer write music while you sleep.

Sorry, can't type any more, my old fart hat has slipped down over my eyes.

Last edited by Mark Hayes; 12/30/21 06:41 AM.