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Is My Music Pretentious?
Be My Head:
Fretless instruments are fucking cool man. Asian music rocks, hard.
Especially Gamelan music, those Indonesians know how to have a good time.
Spluff:
Music theory isn't rules, it pretty much just says 'hey if you put these two things together it could sound cool/abrasive/metal as fuck'. It's not necessary by any stretch, as it'll probably just teach you things you are going to figure out anyway but slightly quicker.
Sox:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 23 Jul 2009, 18:44 ---Music theory is an essentially arbitrary set of rules that conditions us towards hearing sound in a certain way (it is just as easy to arrange sounds in any number of ways). It is a pointless contrivance unless you want to make some boring fucking rock music or something.
Also it makes people who jack off about music theory really upset, which is wonderful because it is an unbelievably joyless way to treat music.
Knowing music theory would almost certainly make this guys music more boring.
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Everything in this post was written in ignorance. Music theory is a clumsy language. It is nothing more than a way of communicating music. It does not condition you to hearing sound in a certain way anymore than learning the names of different shades of colours conditions you to see photographs any differently.
You seem to be under the impression that music theory has everything to do with maths, but after learning about it for the past 6 months, I haven't had to use any application of maths whatsoever. Perhaps you're confusing music theory (which is about what the names for the sounds are, and virtually nothing more) with acoustic theory (which has everything to do with maths).
Honestly, I doubt that learning the names of notes has ever transformed an interesting, creative and talented music lover into a joyless, uninspired boring asshole, however much you seem to be genuinely convinced it will. If you could find me sufficient evidence that it does, then I'll gladly admit that you're right.
Maybe you should try to learn some music theory and see if you turn boring.
BeoPuppy:
Maybe you'll grow boring a piece at a time so you can stop, the minute you discover the first boring toes on your feet!
KharBevNor:
I have tried learning music theory. Did music at school for years, put me off even trying to play an instrument for ages. Impossible to enjoy playing an instrument whilst reading music. The shit is definitely maths.
Music theory is pretentious.
God I love annoying you guys sometimes.
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