Ineffable Ontological Detanglement .: Introspective Assistance & Mental Analysis Manual
It is a three tiered experience. There are no levels of ability within each tier, you're simply within the tier. What you're capable of within your tier relies on the strength of your artist imprints, what you've learned about music all your life, what you've learned about playing your instrument all your life, and, of course, the unique nature of your core and ego.
The first tier we label musical interest, at musical interest you're good enough to get signed to a record label, you're capable of laying notes in a manner that is presentable, however you were meant to be an observer, possibly a music critic. At this tier you have one third of the sound as colour synesthetic experience that is musical ability and there's a reasonably good chance you'll never notice it, not unless you start taking psychedelics.
The second tier we label musical talent, at musical talent you're good enough to be an acknowledged star, you're good enough to go down in history as somebody who mattered to music, somebody who created music that actually hits you, actually enters into your emotions. Obviously, you have two thirds of the synesthetic experience that is musical ability, there's a reasonably good chance you'll notice however it's still possible you may not notice.
The third tier we label musical gift, at musical gift you're high genius, the majority of us go unacknowledged, high musical genius is not something the mainstream ear is after. We are incredibly synesthetic, we travel right into the atmosphere of the colour of every little tone we hear. Nobody will ever get us like we get us, no matter how good you think you are at listening to music, nobody can listen to music like we listen to music. We can be criticized for the manner in which we listen to music, we can play the same track on repeat all day for a week straight. The story of Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember leaving the apartment while "Transparent Radiation" by the Red Krayola was being listened to by Jason "J. Spaceman" Pierce on repeat as he smoked a cigarette, Pete comes home hours later to Jason still listening to it with a pile of cigarette butts around him. That's how the true understanding of music operates, music critics.
At the top of the scale, musical gift, when you're first learning how to play your instrument you'll find you play differently, you're within an entirely different perception of music than the normals, you have to learn how to flatten this out for appearance while maintaining your feelings and placing your feelings within the appearance of normal music. You want to hit the notes a quarter second before you're supposed to hit them, you know the note that's coming and you know it needs to happen now. Not because you're excited, because you're within the flow of musical expression, you understand the experience is all happening at once all of it is inside of itself this note is inside of the note you just played is inside the note that comes next is inside of the timing of the music and it's all the exact same thing.
Oh. People within gift, it's... Simplified melody genius has to come first, then you can go complex. We keep it a secret in order to lock as many people as possible out of our club. Also, nobody else needs to know.
Within white racial psychology, the teacher always knows, people with the gift get nimble fingers and find piano, that's why I'm here. In North America, you can never tell them. In Europe you can sometimes eventually tell them, if they turn out to be just that incredible. You have to flatten out all "Oohhh your nimble fingers" feelings beforehand as piano teachers are always a little gross. One day you'll end up being able to tell them "Your nimble fingers play piano very well." You say it like a fascist and you both know you understand piano teacher vibes it isn't that. Very few will ever get it. Generally, something causes the piano teacher to get cut off just before they're ready to make it with piano and they have to find something else on their own, so, you better not retain anything relating to it being your grossness, because sometimes it is that. You played the part that owns you your grossness and now you have to play it more, you're a piano teacher and you know what you're doing. Generally it's find Christianity and live with your mother. Don't murder her until he or she is ready or just wait for her to die. Mine did a good one, invite the woman he kept calling demented to his demented little Christian play show so he can flash me "Nobody will ever get it." looks and watch me God acknowledge the repression. "Oh good he retained awareness of God mission" looks and watch me repress them. "Oh god please stop" looks and watch me repress them. They think I'm laughing at fucking sullivan and sons and watch me rep-DAMMIT KID. His father says "Weird fucking piano teacher" and I say "Yaahhweerrd fucking... Piano teacher..." Yes it was, that's exactly what happened. Had to hit the hammer, no we were not in a relationship but I'm more casual about weird fucking piano teacher it didn't sound as fascist. God assists those ones. Oh and then he loses this guy and he just quits and lives the rest of his days with his mother. Demented Mennonite motherfuckers never know how to tune these pianos was one of the first things he said to my mother. That was the one that declared us in line. I know you want rock piano, but we're starting you off with classical piano, that's what it says with the gift. I'm going to be a little hard on you sometimes, but I respect you, you know.
Aria Wellington and I see a very similar angle within our synesthetic ethereal blur, Bolt Remming and Michael Stratsberg see a pretty different angle. You're not getting into The Solanaceae Collective as an artist if you don't have musical gift, we're not doing the normal music for the normals we're doing some other thing. Musical interest will get you a place as a performer but we'll always have more respect for the performers that go all the way to musical talent.