Here is a good one:

 

These get me every time. Simply the best. RIP Trish baby.

 

From Italy via Germany:

and the always AMAZING French duo, Deux:

and lastly from Mali with perhaps one of my favorite songs of all:

and from San Francisco:

Please enjoy!

 

Still these:

Joni Mitchell - Woodstock
Beatles - Get Back
Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
Wishbone Ash - Jailbait
Living Blues - L.B. Boogie
Fleetwood Mac - Green Manalishi
Brian Eno - Baby's on Fire
CCR - Fortunate Son
Johnny Cash - Hurt

Beatles - A Day in the Life
Steve Harley - Sebastian
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime
Allman Brothers - Jessica
Frank Sinatra - Summerwind
Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee
Bangles - Eternal Flame
Who - Behind Blue Eyes
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
Rolling Stones - Love In Vain
Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter
Jeff Beck - Scared For The Children

 

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Is this a good time to point out that Joni Mitchell was entirely self-taught, made up her own tunings and was pretty much an instinctual musician who knew nothing formal about "the notes" even at the point she started working with established jazz geniuses like Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius?

 

Don't think that those who learn music formally can claim to be musicians. Most educated people either become plain players in bands. etc. or teachers. Being a musician is a step above being a performer. Most great musicians have learned from musicians before them and by being directly involved with them. If you do some research on prominent musicians, you might find that they have been in contact with living musicians and learned from them. You may be wondering where that early musician learned, which is very similar to the chicken and egg question of which came first.
A musician or composer is different from a performer or player. A musician creates music, but a performer only plays it.
A very big problem we have right now is that there are very few musicians, and they have been replaced by educational systems that mostly have major weaknesses. The type of music learning is not important, but the quality of the work is what can be evaluated. But the point is that for better music education, the presence of a musician alongside the student is certainly important.

 

Not necessarily true.

Because basically, someone who criticizes is not popular with anyone. Everyone considers criticism a danger. Everyone loves peace and wants everything they do to be approved by others. When someone criticizes something, the creator of that thing feels that the work they created is in danger and may be damaged by the criticism, whereas the critic's goal is not to harm, but to try to improve. Maybe that's why people usually respects only the creators.

This is probably true, because the act of writing is easier than producing music. Maybe AI makes everything easier and both writing and producing music becomes easier.

Music and writing are two different things, but music can be taught or criticized to some extent through language. Frank Zappa probably said this when he was being criticized. Maybe if he was a critic, he wouldn't have said this. After all, creators usually don't like to hear criticism.

 

Huh, I think you're changing your thesis. Previously it was always that there is no such thing as innate talent and that only education (one that apparently is impossible to find) produced an understanding of tHe NoTEs.

 

The person most in need of music lessons here is Foster.