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Response to Confession time... 2025-07-04 21:27:28


My music teacher said that learning music theory first is like learning the grammar of a foreign language without any vocabulary and that you have to learn and understand the basics first.


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Response to Confession time... 2025-07-04 22:53:23


I'm in the same boat, I know next-to-nothing about theory, but despite that I'm here to suggest musictheory.net as a genuinely good resource.


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Response to Confession time... 2025-07-04 23:38:45


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Response to Confession time... 2025-07-05 01:39:40


Make interesting sounds first. Make them sound polished later.

Response to Confession time... 2025-07-14 14:20:57


At 7/3/25 09:57 PM, Jojo wrote:
At 7/3/25 07:14 PM, Latadenata wrote:
At 7/3/25 02:45 AM, Jojo wrote:I actually don't know that much about music theory. Lol

Go learn it!!! It's not essential, but it will increase your music composition quality exponentially! Learning chords and chord progressions is OP.

Tell you what, my dude. You got any material along the lines of "music theory for idiots"? Talking full-on dumbass level. I am very much a layman with this sort of thing.


If you know how chords work and what a CMaj chord is, for example, just watch any David Benett video about chord progressions, IMO learning cool chord progressions is a game changer.


If you still don't know how major and minor chords work, just watch any video, you should end up understanding it sooner than later.


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Response to Confession time... 2025-07-14 14:45:42


At 7/4/25 09:27 PM, BlakeTakesCake wrote:My music teacher said that learning music theory first is like learning the grammar of a foreign language without any vocabulary and that you have to learn and understand the basics first.


I agree with this, it's the Wooten school of music, learn to speak before you learn to write. So learn to play an instrument before you learn theory.


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