Re: A question about music theory
Music theory is a lot of fun. The problem I had with creating music after I learned it though is since it teaches the rules, my brain is stuck within the confines of those rules. I know it, my brain knows it, but it stifled my creativity a lot.
That being said, the theory textbooks I have seen were all laid out a similar way.
writing musical notation
key signatures and time signatures
scales major and the three types of minor
intervals
gregorian chant and counterpoint
chord progressions
Chorale writing, four parts
7 chords and secondary dominance
modes
augmented sixth chords, three types
musical form
other types of chords
tone rows
That list would get you through the first three semesters of a college theory course, but if you look up lessons online, you might be able to learn them faster.
Still, ear training is the most important part, so knowing what a minor third is is all well and good, but if you can't hear it, it isn't going to do you any good, and there are a lot of skills that they work on in a classroom or in person that you will not get from a youtube video.
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