Are prog fans Musicians?

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Very interesting thread.

Where do you think talent comes into the equasion?

I was thinking of some autistic children who have amazing skills, artistic and/or musical.
These poor kids - because of their condition - would score quite poorly on most intelligence measures and yet they often display incredible abilities, is this just pure talent?

Perhaps the problem with this discussion is that we tend to measure intelligence in specific and often quite narrow ways, being emotionally intelligent is very different from being academicaly intelligent for example.

Musical / artisitc intelligence is also an aspect of human nature and can appear in greater or lesser degrees in people.

I picked up guitar quite easily but have really had to work on playing piano - it does not come naturally to me. So could you say I have an innate talent for music with a predisposition to stringed instruments?

Or is this becoming overly complex?

And in conclusion - are people who have musical inteligence in any form more likely to appreciate 'inteligent music' as opposed to mass produced pop?