Pickettstone says, I got a heck of a question.

All right.

If you were to change anything in music education, what would you change and why?

Everything.

I'm doing a project on the subject, so I'm curious.

There's a lot there, Picketstone.

You know, Adam Neely actually had a great video on sort of the systemic racism in music theory.

I shared that on my social media and got so much like, so much pushback for it.

I actually don't understand the problem of having the conversation of analyzing where

what we're learning is coming from, especially because for so many of us, especially if

you play any kind of modern American music, so much of classical

music theory is just not relevant or important. Not only that, but it actually can be

detrimental to how you learn the music. You know, we have to retrain people who learned via

classical music all the time how to use their ears. I think you're a rare case where you're

lucky enough to come up with really hip classical

musician parents and we're in that world from an early age, but learned very early on

to use your ear to learn things.

Yeah.

To me, that is the biggest disconnect, is that if you look at the culture of the music that

you're trying to learn,

and they don't have anything like that was written down for a very long time,

it was just all passed down musician to musician.

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