This is a response to a message I received while back that I never answered. And a response to those who have similar questions. I'll keep it simple.

Tutorials, guides and manuals are determined instructions that dictate your creativity. To have the authority over your creations is the greatest crime of intellectual work ever. I am an open learner and a practicioner of open music. Open learning is as old as this human civilization. Open learning means you are your own master and the universe is your class. (Max Stirner got it right but I'm no spook)

In my history of creativity, I have not learned art and music through mindless instructions or manuals. But through experience, skill, experiment and exploration of sounds as much as possible. I'm proud to say to those whose rejected that you cannot create music with noises, or cannot use sound design in classical. I have proven them wrong many times, and will continue to do so as long as I am still alive. I can go from one extreme end to another without difficulty. That is the power of open learning.

I do not believe in talents. Talents are for the privileged. The notion of talents meaning you have to rely on conditioned bullshit such as 'gifted' or 'prodigy'. There are no talents in the under-privileged people, but what they have is unrestricted creativity.

Do not give up on your own creativity. Do not dictate your mind based on the idea of 'unique' or 'special'. No one is special, yet we are all different.

Stay classless!