Being classically trained is just a different approach to making music; it's not inherently better or worse. One can promote discipline and develop patience, the other can be more abstract and spontaneous. It just depends on what you want to do with music; sightreading is essentially as useful as playing by ear. One is good for jamming and covering music without easy access to sheet music. The other is good for more harmonically complex works and has reliable accuracy. You think it's an insult to DIY musicians to say that they need to know scales in order to be called musicians? Fine, but realize that it's equally insulting to refer to the method that people have subscribed to for hundreds of years as being 'worthless'.
Last edited by gunnels; 10-20-2012 at 12:34 PM.
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