EPT[Guitar] Overcoming Plateaus - Page 2
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Dragar
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ZERG_RUSSIAN
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On August 07 2013 00:51 hoby2000 wrote: Then he's an exception. Most musicians know jack shit about the theory of what they're playing. And in fact, more music theory does not mean you will write better music, and suggesting that knowing more theory will improve your music is a logical fallacy. While I agree that knowing theory is good and can help when used in the right instances, I would not suggest that theory helps regardless, nor do I suggest that one must study theory to be good or be better at playing music. I personally know a lot of theory, but experimenting with chords and understanding the theory behind what you're doing is simply one way to get better. There a ton of others. If you just play and write, you will get better. Progress is not linear in that there are always several paths to take. Of course he's the fucking exception, he's Jimi Hendrix. That's exactly why you shouldn't say stuff like "Jimi Hendrix didn't know any theory, but he's a great guitarist" implying that you don't have to know any theory to be a good guitar player. Jesus Christ you're trying to tell me that "learning theory will improve your music playing if you are at a plateau" is a logical fallacy? Come on. | ||
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Bommes
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On August 09 2013 17:59 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote: Of course he's the fucking exception, he's Jimi Hendrix. That's exactly why you shouldn't say stuff like "Jimi Hendrix didn't know any theory, but he's a great guitarist" implying that you don't have to know any theory to be a good guitar player. Jesus Christ you're trying to tell me that "learning theory will improve your music playing if you are at a plateau" is a logical fallacy? Come on. If you word it like that it is though, the correct wording would be "learning theory MIGHT improve your music playing if you are at a plateau". Music != Theory, and especially a lot of the artists you find in almost any popular genre nowadays grew up without learning theory at all and many of them still don't know any theory even after selling millions of records. Just because someone's name is Jimi Hendrix doesn't mean he's that godlike figure who isn't human, he had to learn to get behind all of the music he created just like you and I would have to learn the music. He just had that much better of a feeling, passion and imagination for it and that's why his music is so amazing. There is no direct correlation between knowing theory and being able to express yourself through music. Theory might help to explore new possibilities to express yourself, if you are ready for it. But if you already have problems to have the right feeling for making music I think theory can be a false friend more often than not, it pushes you into this corner of fixed ideas and how music is "supposed" to be. And that's not a nice corner to be in. | ||
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ZERG_RUSSIAN
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The logical fallacy is that you guys think music theory restricts you. How the fuck can knowledge restrict you? The only thing that is restricting you is your own biases and self-imposed limitations. | ||
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