Andragon, I may be misinterpreting what you're saying, but this has always been my take on it: Musical knowledge (playing "according to the book") is an often misused tool. Too much of the time, Musicians translate that into "The first two chords are "G" and "C", so now I MUST play a "D". In other words, too much musical knowledge stifles creativity-just as learning "cover songs" does. If you spend all your time as a musician going over other people's ideas, then those ideas become engrained in your subconscious, and you will at best have an extremely difficult time moving away from those ideas-because you are unknowingly training yourself to believe that those things are CORRECT, as opposed to being open to other possibities...
This concludes today's mind rambling run-on broadcast.
This concludes today's mind rambling run-on broadcast.
