It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music.
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Neil Peart was a 20th-century American and american drummer. Neil Ellwood Peart was a Canadian musician and author, known as the drummer, percussionist, and primary lyricist of the rock band Rush. He was known to fans by the nickname "the Professor", derived from the Gilligan's Island character of the same name. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Music — The universal language of melody, rhythm, and harmony