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That said, while I agree with Tannin’s point, the flip side to it is that learning multiple instruments is a powerful way to deepen your theoretical understanding. All the really good musicians I’ve known have been multi-instrumentalists.
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I'm not sure I agree. Theory to Music is like Grammar to Language. In language, we have letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, books etc… Our 4 sons were communicating very well by the time they were 4-5 years old, so when they went to school, they learned what to call the 'components'. But when they speak, they are not thinking verb, adverb, adjective, contraction etc. They were telling stories…which they sometimes later wrote down. They just had ideas and spoke extemporaneously. In music we have notes, scales, chords, phrases, passages, verse, chorus, (intro, outro, endings, etc). But I just play music, not scales, chords, etc. I'm not putting a lot of thought into the components if I've learned the tools well. And when our 3rd son & I get together to play music, we don't pull out charts (though we may rarely mention a key). One of us starts and the other keeps up. This particular son knows nothing about scales, chords, etc, but he's a great singer-songwriter, musician who can jam all day long, and occasionally says 'show me that thing you're doing'. So I show him, but rarely try to describe it in theory-terms. I personally think in chords in relationship to what I've learned on keyboards, and guitars, not what I learned in theory class. I think in melody and harmony in relationship to what I've learned from 18 years of classical trumpet, and 15 years of classical singing. I was already playing, singing, performing when I finally took theory class. I didn't learn many new concepts from theory. Theory provided and assigned language to what I was already doing. I'll stop here rather than turning this into lecture instead of dialogue. |
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Just discovered this website Hubguitar, great learning resource I think with sections on all sorts of guitary stuff , tabs tunes improvising and theory , sort of like a guitar school campus on one site.
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Justinguitar.com $10 for 6 month access plus free workbook/text.
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