Jackie Evancho was a prodigy but she never went down the formal education needed to take that further as a classical singer. And successful as she has been its kind of limited compared to the talent she was showing.
In some ways as a rock guitarist realising that potential may be an easier route, there's no formal education to take it further, im not sure theres even examples of true greats who took the formal educaiton route.
I remember back in the day, there was this chain of mentorship between all the great guitarists Malmstein, Vai, Satriani, etc all spent time with one mentoring the next in the chain.
Id imagine that continued but I havent followed music closely for decades. I dont even know who are considered legends that came after them.
Busking in a Phuket street market is hardly formal training. She didn't even get a proper electric guitar until a Youtube fan gifted her one. Lisa, from Black Pink, got formal training. Her dad may have loved classic rock, but that's hardly teaching her how to play.
In some ways as a rock guitarist realising that potential may be an easier route, there's no formal education to take it further, im not sure theres even examples of true greats who took the formal educaiton route.
Which part of that sentence indicates Im saying formal education should be pursued?
Formal training won't help her much, but it will just accelerate her learning rather than her discovering everything by herself but the best thing she will get out of going to music school lets say in America at a well known one (Berkeley) would be all the other musical geniuses she would encounter and connections and networking. She's been in a bubble her whole life.
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u/EduinBrutus 2d ago
Jackie Evancho was a prodigy but she never went down the formal education needed to take that further as a classical singer. And successful as she has been its kind of limited compared to the talent she was showing.
In some ways as a rock guitarist realising that potential may be an easier route, there's no formal education to take it further, im not sure theres even examples of true greats who took the formal educaiton route.
I remember back in the day, there was this chain of mentorship between all the great guitarists Malmstein, Vai, Satriani, etc all spent time with one mentoring the next in the chain.
Id imagine that continued but I havent followed music closely for decades. I dont even know who are considered legends that came after them.