S3C 2017-12-20 01:43:18

it may or may not help...but i've always thought if you like music as a whole- why wouldn't a musician be interested in theories behind making something sound the way it does?

Tyguy80s 2017-12-21 12:03:30

Ah thanks for the kiss lol. And yeah the way I see it, music theory more or less explains or describes the certain sounds we find intriguing. Like those weird barre chord/power chords Kurt Cobain played, they were lazy power chords, but with music theory I can describe also as 5ths with occasionally suspended 4th. Whether Kurt knew that or not isn't relevant; other musicians can now learn from that cool sound that Kurt invented.

It's like describing a coffee mug. You could say cup or mug and know exactly what we're talking about, or you could try to say what it is. "Like, it's this thing where it's like a container that's small enough for your hand and it has a semi-crcle on it for you to grab...". You see how long that'd take?

A "catalog", so to speak, of that particular sound and know how to notate that or recall upon it if I ever do a gig and play Nirvana instead of having to search the fretboard for 10min straight and wasting time trying to reinvent the wheel. I can grab my guitar and be like "oh, it's that thing! I know how to play that!". Never think of theory as boundaries, think of if as a way to simply describe a certain concept. That's all theory is and ever was.