What are your thoughts on music theory? Is it useful in expressing yourself creatively?
What are your thoughts on music theory? Is it useful in expressing yourself creatively?
Camden Powell
Cooper Harris
it's not useful to the maker. it's meant as a way of naming the common elements of music that's already made.
Christian Evans
Basic music theory is incredibly useful in making music and is not that hard to learn. Is is absolutely necessary? No. But by not learning it your just limiting your options.
Oliver Davis
it's useful in defining what is being played
Eli Myers
The more i learned the more i want to break the conventional popular rules on purpose.
It really is fucking annoying how much music is basically structured around three or four chords and is generally either major or minor key. Sure popular music often sounds good, but its boring to me after playing guitar/bass/keys/drums since being a tween.
I really cant listen to shit that isnt doing something llike odd time signatures or syncopation or weird keys these days.
Logan Allen
t. theorycuck
Joseph Wilson
>tfw too much acid and jazz music
Ian Jackson
You can re-hash the musical ideas of your idols, mix them up, throw in your own lyrics and melodic/harmonic ideas, and you will call that creativity.
In addition to that, you can also re-hash the musical ideas you learned along the way by studying music theory, mix them up, throw in your own lyrics and melodic/harmonic ideas, and you will also call that creativity.
The point is, the more diverse sources you study and plunder from (i.e. albums, recordings, written scores, teachers, textbooks), the more ""original"" ideas you will have over time.
William Davis
Music is intuitively generated, just like language.
Music theory is only a description of music, not the source from whence it comes.
Blake Campbell
and yet you probably refuse to listen to any metal even though much of it(death metal especially) conforms to none of what you said
sad!