What is better.. Someone who has learned sheet music and knows exactly each scale and mode there playing in at which exact tempo.. Or someone who picked it up as a little kid didn't know a thing.. Till he found each individual sound and what different guitars allow so he could flow in the vibrations of each element.. I'm a rhythm guitarist and a hippie and I have this thing with my style and I'd like to hear anyone's opinion.

Hi RiseWithin. Interesting question. Am sure those better qualified than I will offer an educated opinion on it. However as someone who has harboured a deep desire to play a certain musical instrument I have to confess there are clear advantages to understanding musical notation. I am almost in despair about my current lack of ability in this area, however I am finding various ways to manifest this interest in a practical way.

However it should be noted that some of the most accomplished and world acclaimed musicians have made their way by just using their ear and working things out as they go along.

I would also guess that "Better" might not be an ideal way to look at thing - please note I did not say wrong :) -

I wish you all the best and hope that your progress will bring you JOY.

Oh and do enjoy your time here.

yes

See what i mean? :)

I couldn't imagine a more emphatic or eloquent answer that the one offered by our forum buddy Datwasntme.

Which yes would that be Datwasntme? Am trying hard to discern which by ear but my current lack of reading ability is sorta hindering my progress to certainty :)

Oh what fun.

... and sometime later on ...

I just worked out that it is the yes that isn't NO.

Next...

I see what you allow yourself to see, which Is nothing inside a common scripture. Which is how music has become.. If you do something that's already been done your amazing and hired.. But if you bends the brackets and truly put yourself out there you will never fail.. Unless however, brings me back you choose to see that. I may have as well but you harnessed it, not I. My mind is a reel to reel.. But I give you your due you will spiral into yourself soon enough.

the one who plays from the heart

... Pardon RiseWithin? :

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Now i is thinking that it is about time to retreat to a much lesser spotted topic.

Have fun folks

if you don't truly feel what you are playing it doesn't matter how technically proficient you are. the music will be flat. by the same token the self taught sound even worse if they can't feel where the music should flow.
so it doesn't matter to me which way you learned.

well played..

you honestly need both to be proficient as a musician, but if you are playing simple music, then hats off to the kid who picked up the guitar as kid, free jazz taught the best musical principle in the whole world, improvisation, when your jamming in the moment out of feel good nature,you can't deny when you've made good melody vs a bad one, and then on from their you combine what you liked and make timeless songs, nothing beats feeling the music, with that said, sheet music is still vitally important, beethoven and mozart could not of made the badass tunes they made with out some way of recording and classifying notes, but I guarentee one thing, there music would probably be much more bland sounding if they didn't have "soul" sort of speak the ability to just let it all go and play for the sake of playing, sheet music is limiting where you could never express yourself to the fullest on such a strict regimine, but without it, it would be hard to remember the radical musical composistions that were ever crafted.

its also what the musician personally wants to accomplish, some want to show off and just play really ridiculous stuff, that doesn't make them any less of a musician for not having as much emotional appeal, they simply want to push the boundaries of whats possible, and then you have the guy trying to poor down into your soul with the music itself. music defies human law really, shoot theres a genre called noise music, and some people dig that ****, all they do is bang **** and make it into abstract beats braking objects and whitenoise and all that, or having a clock tick in various patterns, and they just mumble it together, makes for quite the creepy effects

I have heard of slamm death metal, a genre I'm quite fond of actually, but other than not really, not slamm or stomp to say the least, but I have a feeling I know where the genre name I just mentioned got its inspiration now

Either you got it or you dont. Doesn't matter how u got it. All I know is a man that play the bass makes me wet. lol

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