Nice to at last read someone making sense on this page. :-) Ok, but 1 child prodigy learning in 3 years (?) hardly disproves my point. Also, I don't believe in

Nice to at last read someone making sense on this page. :-) Ok, but 1 child prodigy learning in 3 years (?) hardly disproves my point. Also, I don't believe in "proper training". I believe in learning from the recordings of the greats, and from playing music with people. Sounds like that's how Joey Alexander learnt[0]. I believe that, like many things, jazz can be learnt but not taught. Someone trained in some system will sound like the music equivalent of the academic artist - expert at following someone else's rules, but nowhere as an artist. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Alexander https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Alexander edit: Most people who go to Berklee are already pretty good when they get there, aren't they? Hardly starting from scratch.