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Well, he just learned a different set of cliches from the Neo Classical genre that don't translate into a Jimi Hendrix cover. In the context of the Blues that's fucking terrible. Compare that to Stevie Ray Vaughn's version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An4uDegHB8s … Now *that* sounds "right".
The same applies to painting. I know painters who do immaculate perfect still life paintings who then can't paint a fucking landscape or portrait to save their life. That's because, they didn't really master the concepts so much as master applying the concepts to a cliche.
Programming is the same as well when it comes to mastery of concepts in the service of cliches. I couldn't code a video game to save my life, but ask me to make a network protocol, programming language, assembler, or anything about "language" and it's no problem.
Walk up to the average game programmer and ask them to write a network protocol and they choke and die. Or, how they all use Lua 'cause they can't code their own languages. Or how they keep using C++ for no reason at all. That's not because the concepts are hard though.
It's more that you have limited time and you get paid to perform and what people pay for is cliches that are known to work. So, we all focus in a genre and master the application of the concepts to cliches that work, and branching out requires re-learning all new cliches.
The significance of this idea is this: If these things all require extensive practice to become viable skills, then telling someone they just need to learn the concepts is denying the fact that a vast majority of what makes you a "programmer", "painter", or "musician" is cliches
And, not just cliches but being able to apply the concepts to replicate cliches. I mean, programmers are fucking notorious as hell for denying people jobs simply for not putting a space before the ( on a fucking if-statement so don't tell me they're ruled by cliches.
Additionally, I think a lot of the people who claim you only need to learn the concepts couldn't actually list out these concepts. I think most programmers couldn't replicate P" or a Lisp from memory, even though they're simple. I've never heard a designer even say "value".
Finally, this questions the wisdom that you CANNOT learn the concepts from simply practicing. If you are judged by your skill in performing cliches, and the concepts are fairly simple, but only understood through experience, then...why can't you learn them while you practice?
and then there are people like me who do a lot of unproductive excersizes instead of the ones I need to and get seriously flummoxed by the same sorts of things over and over :)
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