Q: you often give advice to wannabee musicians to just play around, use notes and combine them in different ways and it comes across as thats how you got to where you are. But it's obvious from this page that your actual music knowledge is vast and that you didnt stick to messing around and actually took some serious time to study music and music history, get acquainted with various styles including classical and jazz and also you even revealed that you actually had some formal tutoring/training as well (7.13.17 11:58 am). Isn't it a little disingenious to just say to people to mess around with music when there's so much more to music than that? Sorry if it sounds like an accusatory question, i dont mean anything bad by it. Just feel like youre underselling how much work one has to put in to be bill wurtz or jay z or bono or whoever
A: over and over and over again, people talk about learning music like it's something that someone else has to give to you, or like it's something that someone else can just make you do. that's just not how it worked for me. sure, there is a lot of language for music, like knowing the note names, even knowing what the common industry names are for chords. but that information is all out there readily available ESPECIALLY now with the internet. the only way any of that information is going to make sense is if you actually try it out. and when you are ready to learn what things are called, i think you will find that the information will be readily available. i will also readily provide that information as well. like for example, if anyone asks me what any note is called, or if anyone says "is there a special name for when you play C, Eb, and G at the same time", i will readily and gladly say "that's a C minor chord." but if someone asks 'how to use theory to get music to sound good', i will explain again and again and again that the way to do this, and the way to learn how to do it, is by using your own experience, your own mind, your own hands, and your own ears, otherwise you're just not going to get the good stuff. i will keep trying to explain this to people until the apocolypse, maybe even after that