Music, like any art form, can be boiled down to fundamental building blocks. Once you know how to stack the blocks then you can start to experiment with different styles, time signatures, modulations, any really anything you can imagine, but at the heart of it all are those fundamental blocks. If you never learn what those blocks are or how to stack them, then you're severely limiting yourself to only a couple of genres of music. If the prospect of only ever playing 8th note power chords doesn't upset you, then by all means, pack that shit away, load up a bowl and crack open a beer, but don't call yourself a musician, or at least acknowledge the real ones when you meet them.
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