| | It's always great to know the mechanics of something, it can never hurt you.
The thing you have to come to grips with is that you now have another modality as an observer/listener/reader. You just have to learn how to toggle back and forth.
Years ago, that got me real itchy with music. I was exercising my new skills, you know, isolating parts and such. A simple example would be listening to a trio- I would listen to 1, then 1 plus 2, then 1 plus 3, then 2, and 2 plus 3, etc. Same thing with whole symphony sections. Very cool. But, after awhile I think I kind of forgot to listen enough on the whole. Or, I would set into that right away on a piece that was new to me, where I probably should have been breathing in the whole thing before starting the aural deconstruction hijinks.
It's OK to examine the facets, consider the techniques, ponder the influences from which the piece came. All it is is that you lose something if you forget to take in all in at once. There's stuff out there I tore apart like that that I hear now, years later, and it's a completely different experience, between how I've changed, and how I go about listening to it.
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci
