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RealLifeFake:
I've got 6 semesters of Music Theory under my belt (along with Ear Training, which is extremely helpful if you have the resources) and I would say the easiest and best way to learn Theory is from someone who already understands it.

Music Theory is a contrived, irritating, subject which bases everything you learn on everything else you learn.  It's like Calculus.  You cannot possibly sit down and understand dirivatives (sp) or integrals without first understanding arithmetic and algebra.

If you find someone who understands Music Theory, they can explain the rules to you in a way that will help you understand them.  You can't get that from a book.

Good luck.

Lines:
you need a teacher. most of it really is ear training and if you don't know what you're doing, you're not really going to get anything but irritated. i took if for two years in high school and it was REALLY helpful. especially if you are planning to go into music in college, becaue then you can ask your teacher to help you with certain things that will be on entrance exams.

IronOxide:
A teacher is best, or at the very least a friend that you learn it with. Learning Music Theory is utterly useless if you do not do ear training, and to do that well you need someone to work on it with you. Teacher, hands down.

I've taken the AP and it would be amazingly futile to try to learn something like that by yourself.

Also, when you're listening to music, grab some staff paper and do some melodic dictation. Analyze form, do some chord analysis. Music theory isn't somthing you just learn, it's something that you really have to train and work on constantly.

Valrus:

--- Quote from: TrueNeutral ---Really? I got music theory in high school while I was learning to play guitar. I don't even remember what I 'learned' in high school.
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Okay, so getting a teacher outside of high school is the best way. In my experience, the chance of remembering anything you learned in high school two years later is slim.

FeralCats:

--- Quote from: Valrus ---
--- Quote from: TrueNeutral ---Really? I got music theory in high school while I was learning to play guitar. I don't even remember what I 'learned' in high school.
--- End quote ---


Okay, so getting a teacher outside of high school is the best way. In my experience, the chance of remembering anything you learned in high school two years later is slim.
--- End quote ---


Yeah, that's about right.

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