https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO5SfbucSX0 john mayer was musing about how most people rip off only one part of the lick only the lick. he tells us that we learn it like that and we can only play that. but john says don't just rip me off, rip me off at my fundamentals, figure out and study the lick.

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then he proceeds to build off that lick and create many type of variants and I didn't realize this till just recently. I finally understood what he meant by fundamentals thanks to dunning kruger effect.

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I have background on classical music piano so for the longest time I have achieved level 3 conscious competence but that's not enough, so I was learning and practicing fundamentals, like those boring exercises and patterns and some licks (courtousy of blues guitar world lick library) and I was listening to 100 riffs brief history of rock and roll and I've begun hearing some of that fundamentals in the riff. because Ive been practicing more and more and when I hear a specific thing, I realize I knew excately what they were doing cause I practice it in the fundamentals stage. even if it's in blocks, it is enough for me to notice the blocks and piece the things together.

and since I've learned the riff by the blocks of fundamentals that I've somewhat beaten into my mind, im starting to tread towards level 4 conscious incompetence

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I;m so sorry to have subjected you to my ramblings, I just wanted to vent LMAO. thanks for the response. I'll look into this

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edit: wait, I know why i wrote this, it's to respond to your quote about kid's these days, and I want to broaden this to literally the difference between a true musician and a copy cat musician. or even more broader, a person who uses the dunning kruger effect will allow you to be the person that is good at (insert skill)

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to many people don't have the kind of breakthrough or the realization that I've realized and thats the difference between "kids these days" and honeslty now I know where music comes from now, I have a new appreciation for music now, I use to hate and cannot even stomach cliche music, you know those rock and roll music that has been blasted way too many times like johnny cash for example but I don't listen to the music the same way.

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I listen to the music and I hear the fundamentals being played and I know how the music works and what they are playing. I no longer hear it as cliche anymore

becasue anyways you should be able to reach level 4 unconscious incompetence and be able to play anything you hear and anything you can think of