Originally Posted By: Planobilly
This is an uninformed video by someone who wants to present a contentious topic.


And rustle up some cash through subscriptions and ad revenue.

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If you can not read or write, you have limited ability to communicate. That is true for the common language we speak and for the symbolic language of music.

The idea that one should consider not learning something just because it is time-consuming is frequently promoted by the uneducated.

If you can not be bothered to get a basic rudimentary musical education, then some of us will not be bothered to interact with you.

This sort of stupid thinking is becoming all too prevalent, especially in the United States, where large portions of the population can not read the front page of a newspaper, and people with an MBA can not find Canada on an unmarked map.

Being uneducated in today's world with more or less unlimited information at your fingertips from the internet is a personal choice.

We can continue this stupid conversation about the fact that there is a hand full of well known, famous, highly skilled musicians who are uneducated and use that as an excuse to be uneducated.

That idea that nothing can be learned to improve the ability to play guitar, or any other instrument for that matter, by being able to read music is a patently stupid, uninformed comment.


Wow! Billy and I agree on something!!!

This is the core concept of "levels of listening". The more you know about music, the more you know to listen for. Any random 5 people here could go to a concert together and hear 5 different concerts.

I remember taking a girl to see Dave Brubeck. She sat there watching his name and his legacy. I sat there thinking things like "That flatted 5 there was a great passing chord" and "Bobby Militello does a nice job filling Paul Desmond's shoes". We saw 2 completely different shows.

That example is kind of what this discussion has become.

For perspective, let me add this. I was married for 5 (long) years to a woman who was the food writer at a newspaper. She was just one small step below gourmet level in the kitchen. I learned a great deal about cooking and became a very good cook. We also started writing an online newsletter together. We ended up with over 100k subscribers and won an internet award for online food writing.

I took a great deal of pride and self satisfaction from both of those things. Yet I have no desire to be a cook or a writer. I just learned those skills at some level of proficiency for my own satisfaction.

Analogy: If you want to learn how to play an instrument FOR YOU, you be happy in learning it any way you want to. If your goal is to play cowboy chords at the 3rd fret and nothing more, you can learn to do that in a week with a quickie CAGED course. But remember this. You are in control of the level at which you set your bar. Not everybody has the same end game. Those of us who learned "this way" only know "this way" and thus in our minds "this way" is the right way.



Last edited by eddie1261; 06/23/23 03:01 AM.