alt Hacker NewsThey have taste for sure and an ear for a blues lick, but they don't know formal theory. It's like how my cat understands gravity but has no awareness of formal gravitational theory or the maths involved.
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freejazz • yesterday at 11:07 PM
Except that Jimi Hendrix definitely knew music theory, no idea why you'd think he didn't. He had a great understanding of what he was playing.
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The cat is a bad analogy. A better one for me would be like a mathematician that does a contribution to the field without formal education. Would you say they don't know any mathematics if they invented their own nomenclature?