Without knowing the rules there is no awareness of breaking them. This strips you completely of the bonus bad-boy pleasure from breaking stuff
But kidding aside: what you call “rules”, I call guidelines. Because that’s what they really are: guidelines and recipes which you can apply to all kinds of (possibly unknown) musical territories knowing that they will work. It’s much more efficient than “developing/discovering the wheel” by yourself over and over again …
For me Music Theory is simply a map produced by other explorers. I can use it to navigate quickly from A to B, but nothing stops me from putting it down and walking on a spree. And when I’m lost, the map is again there and rescues me.
Right, I can easily see that too, that’s why I said twice it’s a personal opinion and rather generalized statement…
But thanks for sharing another equally valid perspective…
So it seems studio one 4 has some nice apps for chords, will be nice to have circle of fifths etc right there, plus inversions and stuff, together with the scratch pad i think will be quite smart.
Also, to keep sharing: im currently studying two pieces of music - the theme from the leftovers and the jail-intro music to shawshank redemption. These are very interesting pieces to, simple yet seeming to have some sort of plasticity to them. I like how you can sort of hear the counting, so now im trying to analyse them to see what tricks really make them tick.
Forgive my ignorance I have a Digitone and I can select scales with it which is great. But how do I play A Minor or are modes just in a Major key? The Digitone just gives me the scale no minor major option.
I took the plunge and started learning my 7th chords on keyboard. It at least feels like a quantum leap, it doesn’t feel like memorizing and piano keys seem to make more sense from an ergonomic perspective. E minor 7th uses all white keys which is curious to me.
