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A year and a half for me - just a year with the instrument, from absolute novice in both music and guitar to intermediate player with an decent foundation in theory and ear-training. There's nothing wrong with learning both - to play and to understand what you're playing.
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This is way too simplistic a view of the concept of key to be useful. What makes a song "in the key of C" is that C is set up as the tonal center or "home base" regardless of the notes or chords used. While simple songs may stick to only chords built from the C Major scale, you don't have to travel very far before you start running into all manner of variations and deviations. Even before the concept of keys was established it was already common practice to use Bb in place of B in what became the C Major scale. |
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Wow...thanks for the replies and detailed information. It's great to finally find a forum where there are plenty of active members.
Well I can't say I now fully understand modes and scales after reading all of that (I'm still a bit confused with some of it) but I certainly do understand it a little bit better than I did before. But I think I will take the advice of some replies and just concentrate more on learning to play and maybe worry about the theory further down the track. I thought I needed to learn the theory now in order to be able to play and understand chords etc. I found a good site justinguitar.com and he has a PDF on Practical Music Theory with exercises etc so I might read that and do the exercises just so I can understand the basics at least. Thanks again for the replies. |
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You don't need theory to play music. All you need is technique. But you do need theory to understand music. Nothing says you can't work on both at the same time if you so desire. |
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I'll work on both but I think I might understand the theory better as I progress and learn more about chords and hear them and play them etc.
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Theory only really describes what's going on in music, and is often somewhat clumsy at doing even that. It certainly doesn't explain music, IME. Still, those descriptive terms, however crude and simplistic, are useful! Where would you be as a guitarist if you didn't know this weird finger shape was called "G", while this other one was called "E7", etc. Those are theory terms. The more terms you know, the easier it is to talk about music. But you have to play it (and hear it) to understand it.
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Yes, exactly. That's how a structured program does it. Hear it, play it, understand it. Make the music first, then learn why it works the way it does.
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As my sig states: Theory is the post mortem of music...
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