
miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
C'mon Greg...you need to calm down some more...there's just too much bitterness in those comments.
Breathe deep......have a brew.

Breathe deep......have a brew.


C'mon Greg...you need to calm down some more...there's just too much bitterness in those comments.
Breathe deep......have a brew.
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Dude, I literally just woke up from a 3 hour nap. If I were any calmer I'd be in a coma.![]()
Aaaahhhh.....I love my naps. I work from 6:30am to about noon. I always come home and take a 2-3 hour nap. Couldn't live without it.
Fuck yeah. We should take a nap together sometime.![]()
And lord knows...he's said a LOT of idiotic things!!!
How the heck did you manage to find the one "less idiotic" thing???![]()
C'mon Greg...you need to calm down some more...there's just too much bitterness in those comments.
Breathe deep......have a brew.
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Yeah, okay. Your guns are two-sided.I had to look really hard, but I got there eventually
And no Greg, I haven't flip flopped. I stick to my guns.
The dude is gettin crazy defensive because he can't wrap his head around theory![]()
Theory is not difficult. It's just unnecessary. That you think it's this magical phenomonon is pretty naive and hilarious.![]()
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Yeah, okay. Your guns are two-sided.![]()
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It seems like the main use of music theory is for those who know some to lord it over those that know less.
My opinion: For most people outside of jazz and classical music, the level of theory that has any value IMO is just simple ear training to know in the "mind's ear" several types of commonly used scales/modes, a few common chord progressions and metric/rhythmic patterns. A musician with a lot of experience will have these in their ear already cause they've played them thousands of times, and learning "theory" is just learning the terms that apply to what's already in their ear. That might or might not be useful to them. Learning the academic stuff should always come after the person already knows it by sound. Switching that order tends to kill the motivation of creative people IME.
Music theory is just the study of how music works. The history of the development of music theory has gone in this endless cycle:
1) musicians come up with musical ideas that they, and others, like
2) those musical ideas are analyzed and terminology created to describe how it works. This is rarely done by the musicians coming up with the creative ideas. For example, listen to a Beethoven piano sonata, then read an essay dissecting it that uses Schenkerian analysis.
My opinion: For most people outside of jazz and classical music, the level of theory that has any value IMO is just simple ear training to know in the "mind's ear" several types of commonly used scales/modes, a few common chord progressions and metric/rhythmic patterns. A musician with a lot of experience will have these in their ear already cause they've played them thousands of times, and learning "theory" is just learning the terms that apply to what's already in their ear. That might or might not be useful to them. Learning the academic stuff should always come after the person already knows it by sound. Switching that order tends to kill the motivation of creative people IME.