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MadassAlex:
But you can do so with the kind of sound you want in mind.

Durin:

--- Quote from: MadassAlex on 29 Jul 2009, 19:27 ---The organiser might shout out, "A minor!".

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Which consists of the same notes as C Major but with a different root note! Knowledge is power!
I'm taking a music theory course next year because I figure it will make me a more literate musician which is important considering that I'm going to be a choral student of five years and currently attempting to become a decent guitarist. Really, there's a lot of things music theory, or at least courses, can teach you that will help you even if you want to just play "noise." Transcription and ear training for example.

David_Dovey:

--- Quote from: Johnny C on 29 Jul 2009, 20:49 ---i mean i know theory but i still just play what i feel, man

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hey so it turns out that one does not necessarily preclude the other!

(not calling you out or anything John, your post was just a good springboard was all)

Dennisdread:
That music was fine. I was not bored, I was not offended and it wasn't hackneyed. I was in fact, entertained. Is there more to it than that?

Music theory?

What?

Eddie 88:
Disease Culture IS utterly pretentious. Between the spoken voice at the beginning (which I dearly hope was a soundbyte from something and not just you speaking into your computer's mic) and the image you chose for the video (hands holding cliche-looking drugs? seriously?) I had to supress my gag reflex. But the other three songs rock my socks, particulalry Disorder.

But I hardly think you qualify as a genius. You seem to be doing with music what I did with writing; when I was first developing as a writer, I ignored all literary convention and didn't read any books because I wanted to develop a unique flavor without any outside influences. It ultimately worked, but for the first ten years I was writing, all I produced was crap. I consider having gone through that a contributing factor to the talent I have as a writer today, but know that after I had sufficiently developed my own style, I did start studying actual conventional literary form and so forth, and it helped me to refine.

So keep on doing what you're doing, keep developing without any structure or formal training, but once you think you've sufficiently developed your own style, start studying the conventions just to brush up.

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