I’d trade my car repair skill for house repair, and my musical ability for math ability. Both of those are far more useful in life. Maybe also trade my computer ability for welding or woodworking.

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    I’m in the same boat as him. I have zero talent or understanding if music and art

    Math comes very easily and naturally to me. Even advanced calculus felt east to learn

    I couldn’t sing a single song from memory. Not in a, “I’m bad at singing” way. Literally I don’t remember a single song. I have memorized songs before, but it’s quick to forget them, because it’s just that to me - memorization

    With practice and effort I can memorize songs and generally replicate patterns to make music, but that’s it. It isn’t really learning music

    • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      It literally is.

      That’s all learning music is, remembering more and more patterns, and then fucking around to see if you can combine them in interesting ways.

      You all sound like you’ve just started, hit a chest-high wall and then went “this must be all there is! Woe is me!” instead of just climbing over the wall