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unles you have decades of domain expertise, chances are you are going to fail at analysing music in a meaningful way. stop thinking you can just waltz into this subject

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How many decades of domain expertise in music do you suggest one acquire before just waltzing into the subject?

At least five years of ballroom dancing, and preferably five years of tap or ballet.

three and a half.

Damnit. Given your pedigree I had you in the pool for 4 1/4

Although this might be true, it's pretty irrelevant if the kind of music you're analyzing didn't exist a few decades ago.

can you give an example of such music?

Modern bachata music didn't exist until 1994, so there's that.

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