I have a friend who speaks Spanish, and her background is Chilean, but she cannot really write it or read it very well. She only lived there a short while and moved to the states when she was quite young so she learned the Spanish language mostly by ear. That is how you are with your music. You can play it and use it, but have not learned the “language”music theory. Some musicians might say you have done it backwards, but as you said you’re intuition is not something you can learn in school; it’s a gift. I play the piano much by ear, although I have a somewhat theory background, but I do not like following music. Every once in a while I do like to tackle a good Bach piece, just to challenge myself, but if someone says, can you do a realistic medley of Elton John‘s greatest hits? I’m ON it…no sheet music. One is not better than the other. I like how you brought up the point that the arts like music can be done in a different way.
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I have a friend who speaks Spanish, and her background is Chilean, but she cannot really write it or read it very well. She only lived there a short while and moved to the states when she was quite young so she learned the Spanish language mostly by ear. That is how you are with your music. You can play it and use it, but have not learned the “language”music theory. Some musicians might say you have done it backwards, but as you said you’re intuition is not something you can learn in school; it’s a gift. I play the piano much by ear, although I have a somewhat theory background, but I do not like following music. Every once in a while I do like to tackle a good Bach piece, just to challenge myself, but if someone says, can you do a realistic medley of Elton John‘s greatest hits? I’m ON it…no sheet music. One is not better than the other. I like how you brought up the point that the arts like music can be done in a different way.