Yes music in theory is logical and mathematical, but it feels like an encrypted language to me. Like I know the logic is there but I can’t begin to see it. And other people see it intuitively without training. I’m bad at learning other languages in general.
I do like auditory information, but so far not for fiction. I like to read fiction and listen to nonfiction.
The best and most creative musicians typically had little to know understanding of music theory. It was all intuition.
There is an argument to be made that the theory interferes with the natural intuition.
Interesting, this is exactly how I feel about audio info – might as well be speaking Chinese to me. I hear the words but they don't compute.
The other day I asked someone for the results of the Eurocup games, and they read the stats off their phone to me. Had to ask them to repeat it four times. They thought I was retarded.
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