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So, why it is essential to learn guitar music theory? by Mike Silverstone
At the beginning we must answer a question: why we should study the theory of music and guitar music in particular? Lots of well-known musicians don’t know the theory and play the guitar very good.” So, why do I need to know those notes?” – Every self-educated guitarist will ask me.
In fact, it’s not as easy as it may seem at first:
1) Those musicians we’re talking about are very gifted guitar players and much was given by nature itself to them. If you consider yourself as brilliant as Paul McCartney (by the way, he says he does not know notes), you may not continue reading this article.
2) The greater part of those guitarists was engaged right at the beginning of the expansion of contemporary rock music in 1960-70 years, created styles and studied all the required stuff at the same time.
3) Many young musicians are being endorsed due to their appearance and other reasons which have no association with music itself, as a rule. As usual, fans completely forget about them 2 or 3 years later.
4) From time to time guitar players just lie, saying they do not know notes, thus producing the effect of “being closer to ordinary guitarists like you and me”.
5) There’re always brilliant self-taught players who simply resist learning the theory.
Now let us look some of the major benefits of learning the guitar theory:
- At the same time as studying guitar theory you grow to be a more sophisticated musician.
- Random information you owned before becoming to be a piece of helpful system.
- You’ll be able to recognize other musicians and “speak the same language”.
– Learning basic guitar improvisation, scales, chords progressions, etc., it will be much easier for you to transcribe other guitarists (and not only them). You will know exactly “what is happening” while you’re playing and which way to go when improvising themselves.
- Perhaps, it’ll be easier to write music.
So, make a decision, whether to learn theory or not. It can deprive one person of his individuality but help the other to find his musical style.
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