Just before I got out of college, I supervised a young man who was several years older than I. He was a farm boy and though his was a low-level technical job I quickly discerned that his brain was genius level.
I played the guitar a little, so I knew some basic chords. C, A, D, A7, Am, G, Gm, G7, F, Fm, and so forth. Though as a boy I suffered through two years of piano lessons, I could not read music and played my guitar by ear from hearing folk songs of the era.
This young man could describe in precise detail the mathematical relationship of every chord that I knew. I had no clue what he was talking about. |
