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So many folks here just mentioning things that with time and effort they could just straight-up learn.
Music isn't magic, Art isn't something you're born with
Respectfully disagree with you.
I've been taking music lessons for years, to find that I don't have the ear nor the rhythm for it.
Ten years of dance classes, I love the feeling of floating over the floor with an English Waltz. But ask me to stop counting in my head, or improvise rather than trained patterns, and I fall apart, just rocking in place.
Painting too. Aquarels, not acrylic. I don't have the imagination nor, again, the fine motor skills.
The Arts are not for me.
I am a man of electronics, mechanics, computing, soldering, Lego, woodworking, sailing, geometry, 3d modeling. And I can teach and plan and organise.
It's all practical, tangible stuff. That is who I am.
Sounds like you've just not found the right way to learn that works for you, tbh
Eh you can’t ignore the effect talent has on skill development. Their brain can literally be wired in a way that something like rhythm can be difficult to master whereas someone else can pick it up easily. Some of these things you’re just born with and can never change.
The same applies to high level math and art
It's at most a headstart
It’s more of a multiplier. Regardless of practice someone without talent will never catch a talented and dedicated person.
Huh, I guess that explains all those bands of musicians where none of them had any talent and then went on to have zero success, such as AC/DC, Slayer and Metallica
Mainstream musical success is not a metric of musical skill. However if you look at any violin soloist, they have to be talented.
Also I’d also argue many of those band members do have talent.
Nah, Metallica are talentless hacks, they're famous for it
I see you didn’t refute my primary argument.
I just don't think it's true tbh, and you're selling yourself short
I have no evidence and don't care enough to find any either
Try taking some theory lessons, it helps with things immensely by giving a stronger foundation
I feel you. When trying to paint I want to make an exact copy of reality because I can't imagine what is the essential thing to make something recognizable as it. I can't imagine it well enough in my head.
Have you read Drawing with the Right Side of the Brain? Could help you think about art differently.