calimac

I don't know if one can learn to like the blues. Come to love them, yes. My sister would be a good one to ask. She studied classical cello, piano and voice, and got deeply into music theory in her studies. (Much as I love music, she is the one who got all the talent.) Then she had a boyfriend for a while who was a blues guitarist, a really good one. I had a several chances to see him play, and a couple of them rate among my very best musical experiences ever. Anyway, my sister told me once that it took her a while to appreciate what the boyfriend and his friends were doing. Then she had an aha moment where she realized the jazzy stuff they were playing was very interesting in the time dimension, that they were doing with rhythmic patterns something similar to what classical music does with melodic patterns. On the other hand, when they would relax by playing reggae music, she could appreciate at most one song and then she was off to do something more interesting such as knitting.