Did he know theory?
Did he know theory?
Camden Hall
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Blake Baker
Nigga didn't even know to use the rubber when getting fucked
Nolan Wood
Too soon
Jayden Butler
>this one's broken
Evan Wright
Is knowing theory so important though? Paul McCartney said he can barely read music and didn't know much theory when The Beatles started.
But yes, Freddie obviously knew some theory. The sheer amount of chord changes in Bohemian Rhapsody proves it
Juan Brown
Theory isn't just reading music. Literally everyone who plays or listens to music regularly knows some theory deep inside, they just might not know the terminology of how to transcribe it into coherent thoughts or music.
Asher Nelson
You couldn’t write a song like Bohemian Rhapsody without knowing theory.
Luke Hill
yeah you could
Ian Brown
He did, although he downplayed it.
Christopher Martinez
No, you couldn’t.
Colton Martinez
We call that talent over here
Theory is knowing those terms of things that work
Talent is having a sense of what works and applies it
Oliver Cook
Someone in the band sure did. I would guess Brian May would. I mean if you have talent to sing it can be very intuitive.
Ian Thomas
Cool. You still need to know theory, consciously or unconsciously, to actually make music.
Thomas Lee
Of course he did, he took piano lessons in his childhood. All of the piano playing in Queen is done by Freddie.
Charles Gomez
you literally couldn’t though. that’s why it’s able to sound cohesive despite having completely different sounds throughout it’s run time. pleb.
Jaxson Nelson
>Although Mercury often wrote very intricate harmonies, he claimed that he could barely read music
Austin Stewart
aaand welcome to another episode of "Yea Forums is arguing about the definition of theory"
Evan Perez
MUSIC IS FEELING BITCH
Caleb Walker
At least we're bringing it up. Cite a single time you've seen music theory on /r/music in 2019.
Jonathan Ortiz
Music Theory is just knowing how a good song sounds, thats literally it, its not that hard.
Tyler Moore
Reported
Bentley Anderson
Music is a language.
James Gonzalez
"Mercury spent most of his childhood in India where he began taking piano lessons at the age of seven while living with relatives.[17] In 1954, at the age of eight, Mercury was sent to study at St. Peter's School, a British-style boarding school for boys, in Panchgani near Bombay"
"As a young boy in India, Mercury received formal piano training up to the age of nine. Later on, while living in London, he learned guitar. Much of the music he liked was guitar-oriented: his favourite artists at the time were the Who, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, and Led Zeppelin. He was often self-deprecating about his skills on both instruments and from the early 1980s began extensively using guest keyboardists."
"Although Mercury often wrote very intricate harmonies, he claimed that he could barely read music."
This is interesting, from what I've seen there's always been a belief that freddy was a trained classical pianist, though it's probably just a rumor from those impressed with his piano playing, but it is not the case. It's seem like Freddy was acquainted with the basics of theory, but didn't know it beyond what he learned in introductory piano lessons.
But, he was a working musician, so through working with other musicians and composing music he picked up what was enough to be a pop song writer. And he did very good despite not doing extensive study of theory, see this analysis of bohemian rhapsody for some insight into the composition decisions he made. But most of it was not rooted in theory, but Freddys intuition and playing around with chords and modulation
Jack Martin
Music is several languages.
Andrew Thompson
Very good video.
Colton Clark
A language of observed effusions
Benjamin Green
HAHA
Ryder Johnson
Music is literally sound waves processed by our brains. It's pure mathematics.