If you want to believe that, cool.
I took trumpet lessons as a child which consisted of learning how to play major and minor scales. That's it. I could already keep time before that. Because of only a basic musical education any theory beyond that was learned on my own. As such I avoid arguments about when a Bb is an A# and things of that sort.
I learned music by listening and subconsciously and consciously analyzing things. Later on, on bass, I learned what to call the stuff I had already learned. I learned how to play in odd time signatures by listening, analyzing and trying to make them feel natural. I learned alot by experimenting. I did all of that without reading bass clef. I sat here tonight watching a recorded TV sitcom, picking out the incidental soundtrack music by playing the intervals. No instructor involved, no gig on the learning. Learning because I want to. That is a stumbling block for many musicians.
If you really think my time with brass instruments was a big leg up on where I've ended up, as the brother of two sisters who had similar music education and did nothing else with it, I'd had to seriously disagree. The biggest factors in any success I've had were I wanted to be a better musician than the day before and I stuck with it.
We clearly aren't going to agree on this, there are things you want to assume about me and about what's necessary to advance as a musician. I just disagree.
Some people may be more drawn to music than others, some may have a harder time figuring things out, I don't know. I just used the resources I've had to keep pushing on. I'm a better bassist this year than I was last year. I hope that continues... I know I'm still scratching the surface.
Brad, I don't assume anything about you because I only know you through TB and a little on Facebook. We had one short phone conversation too. Any assumption I make is based on what you have posted. There is a good chance that we both have misinterpreted what each of us has said about ourselves.
