Natural talent. What is it?

[pingu]

And I will keep spamming this video until it is admitted that this video is the best jazz.

It'll do ....

[Irez87]

I would have studied with this guy if I could have found his studio in Brooklyn. Damn GPS. Damn not having a Smart Phone.

Anyway, food for thought:

ugh, this was under the players section...

I'd rather read about Doug Raney.

[BigBear]

I think some people absorb and aggregate their practice time more effectively, and apply it more constructively, than others.

[Hep To The Jive]

The good news most are born with no contraindication against music, meaning they can develop enough skills to be a decent musician. In my observation, the ratio is 1 in 5, where one would be pitch deaf and has no rhythm, practically unteachable. It's like a musical disability I guess.

But the rest is down to many factors. Maybe you don't have great motor skills, so it takes longer to develop good technique on the instrument compare to other guy, but you have great imagination so you come up with interesting musical ideas and that's your natural talent... I mean, a talent can manifest itself in many shapes or forms.

As long as you're not born with that musical disability. But then again, you'd probably have talents in other areas of life, maybe sport, or something, so you wouldn't be bothered to want to play music.

[christianm77]

Bleh, Gladwell

[pauln]

I think it unlikely musical talent comes from bearing a "special musical molecule"; more likely that the source enabling musical talent is also the common source for many other talents.

[christianm77]

It’s midi chlorians

[medblues]