= Ciro Santilli's musical education
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Ciro's parents put him to play the piano. This is partly influenced by Ciro's paternal grandfather, an energetic Italian descendant who liked music
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The piano was fine, but a bit boring due to how it was taught.
The teachers were nice old ladies who followed a very traditional and methodic approach which was just like <ourbigbook com/motivation>[regular school], instead of doing what actually needed to be done: inspire kids into becoming creative musical geniuses that can compose their own stuff.
While in <Santos, São Paulo, Brazil>[Santos], before going to university, Ciro somehow got into acoustic and <electric guitar>.
The <electric guitar> environment was much less formalized in general, and he took courses with http://www.maurohector.com.br/[an awesome teacher] (https://web.archive.org/web/20190107231749/http://www.maurohector.com.br/[archive]), who actually tried to inspire his students to create their own music and improvisation.
And so a young teenage Ciro once seriously considered becoming a professional <the best modern instrumental Western music>[guitar player].
In his early teens, Ciro listened to the usual canned music his friends listened to: <music teenager Ciro Santilli liked to listen to>, until he started to stumble upon <jazz>.
Ciro remembers clearly rainy <weekend>[weekend] days where he would go to a run down second hand shop near his home in someone's garage (Sebo do Alfaiate, R. Frei Francisco de Sampaio, 183 - Embaré, Santos - SP, 11040-220, Brazil :-)), and buy amazing second hand Jazz CDs. It was just a matter of time until he would start scouring the web for "the best jazz albums of all time" and start listening to all of them, see e.g. <the best modern instrumental Western music>. https://digitaldreamdoor.com/index.html was a good resource from those times!
Ciro ultimately decided <Ciro Santilli's bad old event memory>[his bad memory] and overwhelming <ourbigbook com/motivation>[passion for the natural sciences] would better suit a scientific carrier.
He also learnt that the <computer> is also an extremely satisfying artistic instrument.
Also, with a computer, boring dexterity limitations are no more: you can just record perfect played segments or program things note by note to achieve whatever music or action you want!
Although Ciro quit playing musical instruments, his <music>[passion for the music has remained], and who knows how it has influenced his life.