an exchange from wrong planet

The_Postmaster wrote:
Same here. I started playing chess, and within a year I was playing at the level of people who had been playing for 5 years. And this is only one example, it happens with just about everything that doesn't involve socializing.


that was my experience, though (as much as i love music) i've had to accept the fact that i don't have the talent for making sounds people want to listen to...tuneless, arrhythmic, harsh; i imagine a culture that valued being able to make things as unlike what was made before, as possible. but that's not what music is--or art either--really.