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Vespa, I'll bet you have some formal qualification in design though.
You may even get pissed off when you see a rubbish club flyer or ad that some has knocked up.
I'm not saying that all music needs to be intellectual but what I'm trying to say is that whether you know it or not when you write songs you're using music theory. Years of being exposed to western music has instilled certain ideas in you, things that your ears like and things they don't.
From talking to your Mentallists guitarist, it seemed she knows lots of music theory and has studied music at various music schools. She knows that stuff so then she can throw it away if she wants.
Same with design. You learn about grids and then you can make an informed choice as to whether you use them or not.
You may write a piece of music that you like but you don't know why it works. If you had some theory knowledge you can exploit why it sounds good and use the idea somewhere else.
Again, same in design. Why does this book look good? Because it uses a certain grid, text size, typeface.
Why not know that stuff about music?The beatles had no clue what they were doing, but george martin certainly did. After they stared working with him they suddenly went from playing skiffle to interesting intelligent music with complex arrangements. Coincidence?
But I do agree with you. It is the best feeling just playing in front of people.
I had the luck to get to jam with Alice Cooper's guitarist once, and that was the most fun I've had with a guitar!Rock on \m/