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Taste and Style are entry points into musical aesthetics. Your taste is how you understand an aesthetic to work, while your style is how you practice this understanding. One wants to have a “good sense” of musical taste and musical style, but taste and style don’t need to be pursued: they’re a by-product of all a musician’s experiences. Having musical taste is simply having a take on things (i.e. conviction), and having a musical style is pursuing your taste with the skills you have (i.e. invention). Experience in music production generates a take on its possibilities and an ever-expanding set of production skills. Build to learn: the more you make your own music, the more you grow your sense of taste and style.