[Glice]

At the risk of (etc).

1. If you fiddle about with the guitar, fuck with the tunings you will have a better understanding of how notes relate to each other (i.e., in terms of intervals and how those vibrations make you feel) than in a purely formalised sense. Personally, I know which intervals make me feel like wrong, but the ability to describe that in formal terms is only the ability to describe that in formal terms; I've hated the same intervals for years.

2. The inability to formalise your dislike of certain relations between notes is no bad thing.

3. The discovery, and understanding of sounds qua sounds is fine, and necessary to a musical exploration.

4. The explicit admission 'I don't know how to play/ I don't know how to play chords' doesn't mean people don't know how to play chords; play more than one string simultaneously and you're playing a chord; play more than one string in succession and you're play an arpeggiated chord.

5. 'I don't know any chords' means 'I don't have the ability to describe a chord'. A formalised music, in this sense, means merely the musical chops to describe a chord. Until you get into microtones, musical language is merely the means to describe what happens in standard tuning.

6. None of this means fuck all. Please enjoy playing your instrument - additionally, please don't send me any of your music, I probably won't enjoy it.