i want to learn music theory
i want to learn music theory
but i don't think i have the brain for it! each time someone gives me a website to check out I just have a total brain fart! should i just get an actual book and sit down with it or what, people?
do i have to know scales before diving into theory? I've been playing for 10 years and have played solely on feel, never learned a scale!
do i have to know scales before diving into theory? I've been playing for 10 years and have played solely on feel, never learned a scale!
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If you're up for it, I'd say look into lessons. My knowledge in theory was pretty horrible so I gave in and took jazz lessons and it's helped out quite a bit. Working on improv stuff helps because it kind of forces you to learn the "roadmap" so to speak, and just build from there.
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i tried many times to understand theory but never got around to understanding it until i took a class on it. even then, it took about 7 months to get into the swing of it. DONT buy a book, unless its a very easy to read one like "music theory for dummies". the problem with those though is that they don't get too far into theory, unless they have other volumes im not aware of.Kellan wrote:My suggestion is to take courses in it at your local junior college or whatever. Having someone who has a degree in music explain the shit to you makes every single bit of difference.
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I was actually gonna get that to start. I know all the notes on the fretboard, but with my main band, my guitarist keeps telling me I'd be a lot better if I knew some theory, he's tried to teach me, but he's not a good teacher, so I wanted to grab a book to start off with.Acid Flashbakc wrote:i tried many times to understand theory but never got around to understanding it until i took a class on it. even then, it took about 7 months to get into the swing of it. DONT buy a book, unless its a very easy to read one like "music theory for dummies". the problem with those though is that they don't get too far into theory, unless they have other volumes im not aware of.Kellan wrote:My suggestion is to take courses in it at your local junior college or whatever. Having someone who has a degree in music explain the shit to you makes every single bit of difference.
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i'd say buy it then, i have it, and its simple to read but like every theory book theres a lot of bullshit.. the first like 3 chapters are just stupid shit about how to find middle C on a piano pretty much, and then towards the end they go waay to into detail about composing melodies... just gotta remember to skip around.
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Re: i want to learn music theory
i was gonna say.. i don't think you're smart enoughhektik wrote:but i don't think i have the brain for it!
Start with this and take it with you everywhere: when you're on a break, on the shitter, bored and don't have shit to do, etc. It's a good little book to start with and it's cheap so not much initial investment.
Sit down and write out scales when you are away from your instrument. Randomly choose a key and a mode, for example, and see if you can construct it (like Ab Lydian: Ab Bb C D Eb F G Boom! See? Easy!). Learn the Circle of Fifths. That will help immensely.
The more you work with it, the more all the shit just sort of snaps together and weaves into itself.
Sit down and write out scales when you are away from your instrument. Randomly choose a key and a mode, for example, and see if you can construct it (like Ab Lydian: Ab Bb C D Eb F G Boom! See? Easy!). Learn the Circle of Fifths. That will help immensely.
The more you work with it, the more all the shit just sort of snaps together and weaves into itself.
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A lot of music theory is actually pretty intuitive. There are a lot of complicated terms for really simple stuff I'm going to get some lessons next year, hopefully from a couple of teachers. I'm going to try the guitarist from Sikth for mechanical exercises and improvisation and find a jazz guy to work on harmony and reading..
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i took several years of theory classes including AP and college theory. you don't know the meaning of the word tedious until you've had to analyze chord progressions and counterpoint for hours on end.
there are entire books about one chord in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. why? because people are fucking nerds.
there are entire books about one chord in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. why? because people are fucking nerds.
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Listen to too much blues?hippy wrote:i found out i can hear perfect fourths
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open notes on each string in standard tuning are perfect fourths, ascending from the 6th to the 1st. these are the only 6 notes i can hear and know they are in tune.Pfl?yd wrote:Listen to too much blues?hippy wrote:i found out i can hear perfect fourths
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Actually, there's a major third in there too.hippy wrote:open notes on each string in standard tuning are perfect fourths, ascending from the 6th to the 1st. these are the only 6 notes i can hear and know they are in tune.Pfl?yd wrote:Listen to too much blues?hippy wrote:i found out i can hear perfect fourths
That fucking B is always laming up the party.croninburg wrote:Actually, there's a major third in there too.hippy wrote:open notes on each string in standard tuning are perfect fourths, ascending from the 6th to the 1st. these are the only 6 notes i can hear and know they are in tune.Pfl?yd wrote:Listen to too much blues?hippy wrote:i found out i can hear perfect fourths
Izzy: do you realize how broad "environmental science" is?
Izzy: it's like going to school for history
Izzy: well, more useful than that
Izzy: but an expert on the civil war won't know jackshit on uhh
Izzy: something that isnt the civil war
Izzy: it's like going to school for history
Izzy: well, more useful than that
Izzy: but an expert on the civil war won't know jackshit on uhh
Izzy: something that isnt the civil war