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Learning music vs. learning to write - which is easier?

Background: I was a lousy writer growing up and through practice picked up some pretty good skills - I can usually find errors in a copywriters resume. I was never visually creative growing up but now I'm a web designer and I have a very good eye for a good design which I developed over 5-7 years of doing hundreds of websites. So my questions are: 1) Can I expect similar results with music?...because I don't really have a good ear...I can't listen to a pop song and hear the tonality of the chords. 2) Will music require the same...or perhaps more...commitment to mastery than writing and web design did? Is it something that would need hours a day?

Public Comments

1. do a Google search, locate and buy Victor Wooten's book "The music lesson" to learn about this. He addresses this issue very precisely and eloquently.
2. Each person is different./ For me music would be more difficult.
3. Music is some thing every one has you just need to be in the write emotional state some times or you have to find the music that really brings that out. I'm fifteen know, but when I was twelve and I hated listening to music I took a music class for a saxophone and when I learned a bit about music and picking up the beat so I don't loose my place when playing I found my type of music pretty fast after that. As for time I did an hour a day almost every I never stuck with it, but if your really trying to get into music and this something you want to do you should be able to pick it up pretty easy.