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Of all the hobbies I picked up. Music was never one I learned to be creative in. I learned to memorize existing songs.
by Forge36 6y ago
Of all the hobbies I picked up. Music was never one I learned to be creative in. I learned to memorize existing songs.
- jl2718 6y agoI'm aware that this is the case for most people's music 'education'. Sometimes I think the same for school-taught programmers. Actually I have a hard time coming up with any kind of education that has enabled more than stifled creation. Long ago I had just one music lesson and then bailed forever; it was terribly rote, but much later as an adult I did something that changed how I saw it. My brother got a keyboard for Christmas, and nobody knew how to play, so I just started practicing the finger placements for the 'Axis of Awesome' chords, and about 4 hours later I was competently entertaining his kids with songs I was making up as I was going along. That was an incredible feeling of weightlessness and thoughtlessness, like some spirit I've never known was playing through me.