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By Paul Shirley
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, October 19, 2009

I am no musician. My five-year, pre-teen effort to learn the piano was workmanlike and without inspiration. A middle-school foray into life as a trombonist left me feeling equally unsatisfied. In both cases, I understood what I was supposed to be doing, but the act of playing music never made my heart sing. If learning music was painting, I never stopped needing numbers. Thus, any advice I give to musicians is done only as a consumer of their music. I couldn't tell Tom Morello how to p ...

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