If it WAS easy, it wouldn't sound like that!

You can dumb Einstein down to E=MC squared. But that doesn't mean you actually UNDERSTAND it. Most people can recite Einstein's equation. Less than one in a million know what it means.

'Make it easy, and they will NEVER know how it works'...

Mind you, I sometimes feel jazz educators go out of their way to complicate the already complicated. Forget all the above. Learn about parallel 11ths, 9ths and tritones, 13th chords, the 7#9...

But, if you can't read music, and know nothing about basic chord theory, I'd suggest walking before you run.

Sure, you can learn to PLAY Steely Dan by rote copying. But if you want to UNDERSTAND it, you've got to learn the alphabet before you can read Shakespeare... You have to be able to count before you can read Einstein.

[This message has been edited by Diki (edited 09-18-2009).]