You’re here to learn about music theory and you’re waiting for me to use words like Locrian and Neapolitan 6th And I’ve got some good news for you Which is that actually you already know music theory because music theory is just the names for the things that sound right and wrong to You anyway Like if I were to sing Mary Had a Little Lamb and I went Mary had a little lamb and he said that sounded terrible Which it did music theory would just be the name for why? so the bad news is that music theory is not going to Be your get out of jail free card. This is not a tool that’s going to write your next hit song for you But what it will do is allow you to hear things more clearly and to identify patterns and those patterns might be things like your favorite song on the radio or The thing you’re humming while you’re walking down the street and that actually might be your next hit song So it is a very very powerful tool What it isn’t is a set of rules that I’m gonna make you follow You’re already following them, right? It would be like grammar if I didn’t know how to read or write it wouldn’t mean I didn’t know how to speak I could still express myself and string Sentences together with nouns and verbs and make myself understood Even if I didn’t know which ones were the nouns and which ones were the verbs so this is more about creating a dialogue we can use to express ourselves and Describe the things we’re hearing now my approach might be a little unorthodox in this I mean, I’m certainly a musician and a music theory geek But I come at this as a producer and an engineer so my understanding of theory is also couched in my understanding of acoustics and the harmonics series and Getting my ideas into my recording platform as quickly as possible So that’s what we’re after here. And I’m hoping that in the coming episode We can explore what some of these words are and maybe we can even talk about the Neapolitan six, which is a first inversion of a Flat two chord But whatever let’s dig into that one another time until then I’ll see ya You
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