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Right, no. But you can get lost in being rigorous without advancing much in your understanding. But also to be able to generate insights it takes intellectual hygene, which in a sense is applying rigor. Making space for your insights is being rigorous. You can take advice from others but ultimately you know what to do.

A cult can mess up with your sense making and it would take you some years to heal. It is like a regression. Isn't that what the "The Social Matrix" video of Leo explains?

How it will affect you all depends on the type of person you are. There is drama here because people create drama by themselves, that's the function of the ego. I genuinely feel more concerned about studying my own defense mechanisms after spending time in here. People share intersting stuff here. Trip reports, transformational videos, life experiences, insights, etc. I would rather scroll in here than Tik Tok or Instagram. Cause' I'm a Chad. But to make a point for you, it would be better if people posted mostly at their best state.

Could it be that your experience made you paranoid about this place?

Jazz (as in bebop) is super unique. I think those first bebop players were smoking the best kind and creating their music and solos. In contrast you have the songs which have one chord every 8 bars. There you gain time to explore the identity of that chord with the melody or improvising. And then it begs you to changes chords. In 2 chords per bar is super hard to do this. I really like harmony, specifically the question of "what scale goes with what chord?" and "why this chord?"

I take insights seriously. Because I know they are hard to get, ranging from days, months or years to generate new insights for a problem you choose. Having ideas is more of a casual thing. But insight is more of a meta thing. It's like opening a whole new view. Insights challenges your beliefs, that's their beauty, that is the core. They put you in a more creative headspace where you're not a slave of your beliefs (give or take). What I was trying to say is that even if you try to be rigorous you're not guaranteed to have good insights.

Music can be done in such a way that you can hear a story. You can hear the plot-twists happening as the sound landscape changes. It feels like moving from one room to a different one. Every time a chord changes you're changing rooms. A percussion section gets suddenly frenetic and you feel you're being chased.

@Consilience Gotcha, good luck. The cult discussion is hot these days.

And also you can track back the evolution from classical music to jazz or modern music. Functional harmony is present in every song made. You could think jazz or modern harmony as made out of trying different plausible ideas that ended working good. Kind of trying different logics and see what happens.

@zurewThere are infinite beings more intelligent than Leo, that's what Infinity means. That's it. That's why his teachings are pristine, because they're hyper-meta. Also be aware you create all of this noise so you don't realize it is you. You just haven't faced that yet. I have the same appreciation. Leo is world-class at what he does. There could be a million like him, but there aren't. Or maybe there are, but what if it is a chinese dude that you will never know exists?

@Schizophonia I don't mind it, btw.

Your expressions, it has a lot of schizophoniatedness in it. Sweet.

I can simulate a sahara desert song for a videogame.

Sure, I used to draw that connection too. All the effort you put is to be able to flow effortlessly. It really is that simple. When you speak a language you don't think what words will come next, they just come effortlessly, you just know what to say next. Playing music is not different, you know what notes to play and you are familiar with every scale the same way you are familiar with words. OF COURSE it is only possible after insane levels of practice. There is no other option. Playing is a mystical occurrence, being absorbed in the sound and chords, that's what we call music. Not math, music.

The exercise would be both to see the similarities and differences. The differences are very clear in a lot of examples. But also you could view punk as jazz but with less chords and notes.