making music in key doesn't make it 'correct' according to music theory. the music theory would state that it's not in key
The theory says this shouldn't work, but it does because feelings and stuff
Nathaniel Bennett
Kayden Edwards
This is a little misleading. "What makes music sound good" is pretty much down to education, cultural background and upbringing. A Schubert string quartet doesn't sound good to a group of native Africans because they're used to music that doesn't used the tempered system or harmonic function logic for example. It would sound confusing to them. The whole thousand years of research has been done for Western classical music after the tempered system was created so it's obviously lacking in older music and other musics of the world. However music from ~1750-1900 is obviously well documented and there is in a fact an abundance of "guides" how to make tonal music sound good to someone who is used to and grew up with tonal music.
So overall I agree with you.
Landon Garcia
Autistic people should try to understand music.
Aaron Ortiz
Knowing the keys and root notes relative to chord changes in music is an important part of theory.
Say I wanted to learn how to play the blues. Without theory how could you teach me how to really capture that sound?
Landon Peterson
no. but what does that have to do with sounding good?
Dylan Martinez
That’s true. I was speaking based on classic western music theory.
I think what I really am trying to say is, is that music theory isn’t like maths, however there is maths applied to frequencies but in general it’s just a conceptual and discriptive tool used to teach people music
Brandon Watson
Well, would blues sound good if you weren’t aware of it’s most basic roots in chord progressions, what notes give it the signature blues sound?
The blues has its own scale of musical notes that are played in specific ways to capture the sound.
Western music is made up of 12 notes. You need to know how to arrange and play them to achieve the sound you want.
Here is a really basic but good framework for what makes a blues sound. Using this, you can play along to most blues progression backing tracks and make it work much better than just randomly hitting pentatonic notes.
And without theory even this very basic understanding could not be communicated effectively
Nicholas Bailey
>Well, would blues sound good
no, it should be phrased 'does it sound bluesy'. 'good' is a subjective term
Lucas Wright
Well how would you teach a bluesy sound, what makes the blues bluesy.
Elijah Long
by using music theory.
music theory doesn't describe what makes music good, it describes music