You write a nice little bit of music. The non-musician asks about it, and you say; "Oh, it's pretty formulaic. Just an AABA in D minor. Pretty much just a little three-note motif starting on D and sequencing up through the scale. Block chords behind it, some noodling around during the bridge." The blank look comes REAL fast. It ain't just the tech-speak. To them, every single note came out of the creative impulse. Only that ARTIST thing told you to put a Bflat there, not an B-natural. Whereas you know damn well there's no B-natural in that key; the only note that makes any SENSE is a Bflat. Oh, you might have raised the fifth here and there, thrown in some blue notes, but pretty much the grammer told you how to play those chords. And as for that inverted seventh...geez, it's easier to slide your fingers around than to play the chord straight. Which is by the way my sum total of musical knowledge. I said I played keyboards, not that I was any good at it! Remembering now the great time I had telling my mom that I sold a pair of shoes 57 times....