Anyone can clap hands and hum, the music isn’t the theory.

criddell 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Anyone? I have a hard time finding the beat. If you ask me to count some 4/4 song, there's only about a 25% chance I get the one correct...

I'm a very beginner guitar player (and have been for about 30 years now) and I know a couple of simple songs. If I try to play along with a record, I'm fine until vocals kick in and then I instantly lose track of the beat and find myself strumming to the syllables of whatever the vocalist is singing.

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javier123454321 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I agree. But the theory is a way of structuring a system of names and shorthands to help codify what you know about producing music. At what point does your system for structuring the understanding you have about how to organize pitches in a way that you like become theory? Specially if it matches one for one to established concepts in academic music theory?

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cwmoore 13 hours ago | parent [-]

I’m not sure what you are saying.

Copy and paste “hello, world” ot install sqlite3 looks like computer science?

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scarecrowbob 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

On some level, yes, knowing what shape an G chord is on a guitar is knowing some theory in the exact same way that being able to get hello world functioning in a language is necessary to starting to understand the broader elements of computer science.

Just because something is the Nth lowest first step does not mean it's not a step.

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cwmoore 5 hours ago | parent [-]

The theory is true, but no theory will make you perform quite like a legendary recording artist.

	▲	scarecrowbob 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, it'd be nice if Berklee funk sounded good.

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javier123454321 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The argument was that the greatest guitarists didn't know theory so it doesn't equate to that. Hello world equivalent. It's more like building TempleOS or Rollercoaster Tycoon or building SQLite without getting a formal education somehow means you don't understand computer science

	▲	cwmoore 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My examples are exaggerated or misleading. Other comment covers it I think.