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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
 Are you 12? Is this what they teach in public school music class now?
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No, just an adult with significant experience in the music industry.
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You're comparing the guy playing Zep covers in a bar in Calgary to "someone who can create music that people love." How many people are we talking about?
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Just based on my own personal experience, probably the most technically proficient guitar player I know is a metalhead who doesn't even really play publicly anymore. And probably the best drummer I know plays in a crappy cover band. They both have pretty suspect taste in music and can't write good songs, so they never really went anywhere. Or my cousin who is a phenomenal classical musician who teaches high school band.
Whereas I know a bunch of people who are lesser musicians technically but who have been able to carve out successful multi-decade music careers playing original music. They're not household names or anything, but within their genres (mostly indie and folk music) they've been relatively successful (play to 2-3K people a night around the world, 1M+ monthly listeners on Spotify, etc.).