Just a thought on "no formal music training": me neither, but they taught me to read sheet music (with notes like these ♪) in elementary school and I still have a bare-bones recollection of it now.
Anyhow, one day about a year ago I *had* to know if Pearl Jam ripped off Elton John for one song I liked so managed to look up the sheet music online and do comparisons before realizing I could just google the question for the answer (they didn't, and yes, sometimes my brain works this inefficiently). But comparing the sheet music, they came rather close.
It was sort of fun listening to the songs in question while reading the sheet music so I'd recommend trying it to others who want to get a little further with any sort of music exploration.
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Anyhow, one day about a year ago I *had* to know if Pearl Jam ripped off Elton John for one song I liked so managed to look up the sheet music online and do comparisons before realizing I could just google the question for the answer (they didn't, and yes, sometimes my brain works this inefficiently). But comparing the sheet music, they came rather close.
It was sort of fun listening to the songs in question while reading the sheet music so I'd recommend trying it to others who want to get a little further with any sort of music exploration.