Well, my musical upbringing was a little better in that my father used to be a talented musician, and even though he quit playing music in his early 20s and never picked an instrument again, he always talked about music (mostly the 60s and early 70s rock he grew up with).
Still, i can't say i really had a musical education. I didn't wake up to classical until i was 22 and since then i had to learn pretty much everything from scratch.
The biggest problem i had is that a lot of the 'concepts' dealt in classical music cannot be learned but need to be understood, generally after a lot of listening. There are a lot of logical leaps involved and you still need some basic informations to guide you.
The flip side of this is that you don't need to know anything about theory, because theory merely describes what occurs aurally, and aural understanding is the only thing that matters.
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