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Is My Music Pretentious?
Hat:
--- Quote from: Mr. Doctor on 24 Jul 2009, 12:47 ---I never understood the true meaning of the word pretentious... I mean, I know the word per se but not when it's okor not ok to use it.
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A pretense is essentially a false reason presented for doing something, so the act of being pretentious is to do things for reasons different to those you use to justify said actions.
Also perjorated to mean 'full of ones self' and 'stuck up' etc
--- Quote ---I mean, I know the word per se but not when it's okor not ok to use it.
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use words whenever you feel like it dogg
ALoveSupreme:
--- Quote from: Jace on 24 Jul 2009, 10:38 ---If you have to ask if your music is pretentious, it is pretentious.
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I started writing something exactly like this yesterday but it became too wordy. You are a succinct master!
Sox:
--- Quote from: supersheep on 24 Jul 2009, 13:09 ---Wait, we're defining learning notes and chords as music theory? I think that's stretching the definition a little, to be honest. It's not like it explained what chords were or why these three chords go together.
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This is exactly what the argument is about, I think. These things are music theory, whether you learn them as such or not. A lot of people who don't learn music theory could end up playing a solo in the pentatonic major scale and not know it. They don't know it, but it is still a solo in pentatonic major. You won't learn anything by dicking around on your own that hasn't already been learned before by somebody else and then written about in music theory. Whatever it is you do, there is something about it in music theory, guaranteed.
--- Quote from: Mr. Doctor on 24 Jul 2009, 12:47 ---I never understood the true meaning of the word pretentious... I mean, I know the word per se but not when it's okor not ok to use it.
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I think it's a really heavy word to throw around. Be very careful with it.
As far as I'm concerned, it is never okay to call somebody pretentious. No matter how badly I think of something and how much the word may actually be applicable. I've called music and people pretentious in the past only to find I'm wrong and regret it. I've been accused of pretention often in the past and it is genuinely upsetting to me when my motivation and creative output is called into question like that.
I wouldn't want to be called it, and I wouldn't call it anybody else. Your mouth is a loaded gun, be careful when you shoot it.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: Sox on 24 Jul 2009, 14:40 ---These things are music theory, whether you learn them as such or not.
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Nailed it.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 24 Jul 2009, 09:12 ---Silliness aside I genuinely believe that music theory restricts the creation of interesting music,
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It's already been said, but music theory is not rules, it is understanding. Understanding what you are trying to do is good, yes? Oh, silly me...
From another post of yours, I guess you had a bad teacher.
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