Like, it’s fun to have tools in the box that’ll let you come up with melodies & chords right off the top. But it’s kinda like saying “hey make your own sentences in [language X you don’t know] by stringing together a bunch of words you don’t know - here’s the vocabulary”
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Well yes, getting good at stuff takes time & digestion & reflection & understanding.
I know, we all live in Billy & Jimmy’s world & just about everything we hear confirms to the KLF Manual structure
Spoiler alert: in The Manual they point out the problem with the music biz isn’t music it’s capitalism but oh well. Here we all are. The bad guys won
But there is a difference between internalizing something & spitting it back out - repetition with a difference - that puts a human fingerprint on it