> > If that means "learn your scales like every other grown-up musician" then yes I will be kind of harsh about it. That's the barrier to entry, because no one wants to hear a musician who doesn't know what they're doing.

> Jimi Hendrix. Elton John. David Bowie. The list goes on.

Are you somehow implying that these musical icons don't know their scales? Please tell me that's not what you're doing.