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From: Ted Heise <theise@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: cyclists attack auto driver
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:19:14 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:37:33 -0500,
  AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>  On 8/21/2024 2:31 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 11:30:45 -0400, Frank Krygowski
> > <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> >> Spoken like a man totally ignorant of music theory, how 
> >> difficult it can be and how useful it is when playing, 
> >> improvising or composing.
> > 
> > <LOL> I doubt the lack of knowledge of music theory caused 
> > Willy Nelson, Peter Frampton, Paul Simon, John Lennon, 
> > McArtney, or George Harrison, any trouble...  Need I go on? I 
> > could fill the page with succesful musician/composers who 
> > never even heard the term "music theory."
> 
>  Yes to all that but an equal number of counterexamples.
> 
>  There's no general rule; Formal training assists and enriches 
>  some performers/songwriters while others get along well on 
>  extreme diligence and independent study alone.  Once in a while 
>  there's even a 'natural', a.k.a., 'idiot savant' as an outlier.  
>  From musicians I've known, I'd say success correlates strongly 
>  to extreme diligence above all else.

+1

As someone who started college as a music major, I can confirm the 
two main categories of career are teaching and performing.  So far 
as classical music goes, making a career out of performing has a 
couple of options: toiling away at very low paying jobs or hitting 
the bigtime as a star.  Like professional athletics, great success 
alomost requires an extreme degree of dedication and effort--not 
to mention some luck,  It didn't take me too long to reaize I 
didn't want to spend half (or more) of every day practicing.  On 
top of that, I didn't really want to teach--so I made an informed 
decision to switch majors.

FWIW, I had music theory in high school, and really enjoyed it.  
It definitely enhanced my musical abilities too.

-- 
Ted Heise      <theise@panix.com>       West Lafayette, IN, USA