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Music is inherent in the human creature, it is fundamental to the way we are, with nothing to do with vibrating strings or ratios of frequencies or cycles of beats, it is all about the animal that we are, and my litmus case for this hypothesis is the observation that children, pre-operational, pre-verbal, pre-educationally-crippled children 'get it' and they get it completely. They breath music, they swim in it, and I could not hope for a more graphic demonstration of this principle than this fellow here taking on what the sensorially-jaded and "highly trained" musical adults call a 'difficult' piece; this boy nails it, in his own parlance, he 'rides' it, and there is nothing difficult or demanding about it, he is charged by it.

A critical perception and ability to mimic diatonic melody is fundamental to human language acquisition; a high-res perception and ability to mimic complex harmonic rhythm is fundamental to our audio recognition and essential to developing motor dexterity. It statnds to reason then that the human creature should have the maximum aptitude for these skills in the early stages when the need to acquire these essential benefits is at a survival premium value.

Mothers who refuse to 'sing' to their babies invariably do, because Baby demands melody, Baby craves it in their struggle to extract information from their environment and Baby requires musical experience to shape and define their identity as a human. Babies know all about animal sounds, they can mimic cats and sea gulls to a remarkable fidelity, but they know what sounds humans make, the real human sounds, and they know that this sound is 'Music'.

You can toss out your slide rules and graph paper: if you want to be a truly creative composer of Music (and not just a mere organizer of sounds) you better get procreative first! Or take up baby-sitting.

If this video demonstration isn't enough to convince you, follow the subtext link beneath the video and Michael Monroe will grace you with further music mastery examples that transcend all notion of mere childlike cuteness.