Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
You're smart enough. You're just not pointed the right way, and nobody tells
you that. The hardest part of getting good is finding out what you actually
need to learn.
somervillesounds.com/yt
I asked AI for the 10 skills you need to be an expert in five areas I care
about, then graded myself 1 to 10 on all fifty of them, out loud, on a family
vacation in Fredericksburg, Texas.
Some of it was uncomfortable. The area I scored lowest in is the one that pays
my bills.
The grades were never really the point. What I actually wanted to know is how
you find out what you don't know you're missing, and who you trust to tell
you. A list from a machine is fast and free, and I still had to test every
line of it against thirty years to know which parts were junk. A person who
knows you is slower and harder to find, and better.
Nobody makes that call for you. Not a person, not an algorithm.
0:00 Is it okay to use AI for this?
1:28 Music producer
4:23 Music composition
7:57 Nashville session guitarist
11:00 Sample library developer
13:35 YouTuber
15:56 What this actually taught me
Every piece of music in this video came from a sample library I built in the
last video. Listen for it under the transitions.
Talk soon,
Jon
You're smart enough. You're just not pointed the right way, and nobody tells
you that. The hardest part of getting good is finding out what you actually
need to learn.
somervillesounds.com/yt
I asked AI for the 10 skills you need to be an expert in five areas I care
about, then graded myself 1 to 10 on all fifty of them, out loud, on a family
vacation in Fredericksburg, Texas.
Some of it was uncomfortable. The area I scored lowest in is the one that pays
my bills.
The grades were never really the point. What I actually wanted to know is how
you find out what you don't know you're missing, and who you trust to tell
you. A list from a machine is fast and free, and I still had to test every
line of it against thirty years to know which parts were junk. A person who
knows you is slower and harder to find, and better.
Nobody makes that call for you. Not a person, not an algorithm.
0:00 Is it okay to use AI for this?
1:28 Music producer
4:23 Music composition
7:57 Nashville session guitarist
11:00 Sample library developer
13:35 YouTuber
15:56 What this actually taught me
Every piece of music in this video came from a sample library I built in the
last video. Listen for it under the transitions.
Talk soon,
Jon
