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Suddenly I realized that I needed to understand intervals and triad stacking - not so I could understand what someone was talking about on a forum, but so I could throw away that heavy chord book.

For me that was huge because I came to music very late and memorizing a bunch of chord shapes was giving me fits. Simply by learning a few simple rules about chord construction I could throw the book away and quickly work out a fingering for almost any chord in any tuning on any instrument and also know almost instinctively which chords I could substitute without stepping on the music. One day I realized that I didn't need a two-inch thick chord book. But, I hated it until I began seeing how it could help with my real goal, which was to be a better musician. Now, I happen to like music theory, though I'm by no means an expert. There may be some other aspect of music theory that would be more immediately useful. In that case we might be better off taking a step back and deciding if we really need to learn that at all. I noticed your emphasis on D R Y - typically, when anything we are studying is dry it is because we can't see how the things we are learning are going to be useful. I think that, unless your goal is to teach music or to major in music, studying theory for the sake of studying theory is probably not very productive. There's more to learn, and at some point I'd like to take the next level course.just need to clear the calendar because I know it will take more study than the first course.

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He helped me to transfer the theory to the instrument specific, including how to improvise. bluegrass, jazz, choro) and could tailor his teaching to my interests. Being of a certain age, it was tough to keep up with the kids but it did drive me to really study and understand the concepts.if I was doing it on my own, without some pressure to do well on the quizzes and tests, I think I would have given up early on.Īt the same time, I was taking lessons from a mandolin teacher who had a bachelors degree in music and was familiar with many genres (i.e. There was no ear training in the course, you could be stone deaf and still ace this course (although it certainly helped if you can hear).

This was a course designed for freshmen music majors who could play their instrument but weren't up to speed on their theory. FWIW, I audited a Music 101 semester long course at the local college (but I took all the tests). It really helps if you find a human (teacher or another musician who knows theory) to help you- going 100% self taught from books can be tough sledding.I agree.

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