Because the question of his relationship to music "theory" has never been satisfactorily answered. "I play by ear". "I don't even know the names of notes or chords". Those seem like a diversion or a way of not wanting to explain it, for whatever reason. Correct me if I'm wrong. I want to know. Taken at face value , playing by ear, being able to compose, arrange, improvise at such a high level says "savant" to me. Not that savants are better or magical or something like that, just that they can operate in ways that regular people don't. "It's just hard work" is another one. Well, yeah, but that doesn't fully cover it, so I'm still left wondering. Someone told me that maybe there's some secret system from the Rosicrucians, and if that really is what's going on, it would explain a lot, but if that was the case, it would remain secret, so I'm left wondering. Someone else told me "Bill knows a lot about music" after I'd told them that Bill said that Bill doesn't know any music theory (and eschews it!). I said yeah, he obviously does know a lot (and I continued to wonder). So there it is ,the wonder of the moment😆
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