"The map is not the territory." I'm stealing this phrase. Increasingly in music production, the map is the arrangement of rectangles on the screen, but it's a

"The map is not the territory." I'm stealing this phrase. Increasingly in music production, the map is the arrangement of rectangles on the screen, but it's a poor substitute for understanding the ebb and flow of the music. In getting past notation by internalizing our knowledge of the music, we build a mental map of how we feel about the territory.