I see it like learning to cook. You can follow recipes and master them, and you'll end up with some good dishes you can make. Or, you might cultivate some of the foundational skills and notice that they are used over and over with slight variations - thus opening the door to many more dishes.
Once you know how to make a basic soup base, there are hundreds of soups that can be made from a few choice additions.
Harmonic analysis can help you discover that this new song is 90% the same as a song you already know. As Mycroft alluded to, if you are playing by ear, the ability to recognize common patterns can put you way ahead of the game.
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-Gordon
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2009 Larrivee LV03-R
2016 Irvin SJ cutaway
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