Learning Music

[kwaga 0]

Anyone a musician here?

What's the best way to learn music theory? Get a book? Sign up for classes? Find a college that has structured classes?

[Nightingale 0]

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Anyone a musician here?

What's the best way to learn music theory? Get a book? Sign up for classes? Find a college that has structured classes?

Assuming you don't already play an instrument, take piano lessons. You will learn how to read music, both treble and bass clef, you will learn time signature, key signature, and rhythm. All of which will translate to pretty much any instrument you want to play (yes, even guitar... if you understand keys and notes, learning to read tab and how chords are put together comes much faster) and give you a very solid grounding in basic theory.

Learning theory in the abstract is very difficult. When you're learning it as you learn to play, it's much easier to absorb naturally, and when you get the explanations a bit later on in more advanced classes, it'll be kind of like when you learned subjects and verbs in elementary school. You already knew how to speak, so when someone gave you the rules later on, they made sense because you had something to apply it to.

If you already play an instrument, take a composition class, for the same reason. If you really want a solid grounding in theory and you already play, this is where to be.

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I was a master at the woodwinds as a child.

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I was a master at the woodwinds as a child.

wood winds or is that skin flute???

[kwaga 0]

Excellent answer, thanks.