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i just don't play the guitar very well...![lol :lol: :lol:](http://www.sevenstring.org/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/laugh.gif)
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i just don't play the guitar very well...
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Well, I can't really be sure the theory is to blame, since a lot of things changed at roughly the same time. (Listening to a wider variety of music, becoming aware of good technique, sound quality/mix etc.)Interesting... would you want to elaborate on that? I've found it to be the complete and total opposite in my case, so I'd be interested to hear your story.
If anything, I think theory could actually help with problems of uncreativity. We all get those spells where nothing new comes to us, but I can do it the theory-geek way. I find something totally out of my usual music territory, something I dont even usually listen to, and just turn everything in to a formula. Chords become I, ii, iv, vii etc, lead parts become scale degree e.g. 1, 3, 5, #4, 7. Then you can apply that formula to something totally different. Choose your own key, your own time signature, your own tempo. Make the drums half-time, constant double bass, polymetric, whatever you want. The result of doing that can then inspire you to change chords/note here and there, so by the time youre done tweaking it may not be anything like the original song that you took the formula from. It might end up sounding crap, it might be amazing, but you wont know until you give it a try![]()
Well, I can't really be sure the theory is to blame, since a lot of things changed at roughly the same time. (Listening to a wider variety of music, becoming aware of good technique, sound quality/mix etc.)
But what have happened is simply that I get less and less ideas, and when I write something it feels like it lacks depth. It appears to me to be just a wall of notes.
What makes me feel that theory might be (partially) responsible is because I find myself analyzing everything: chords, chord progression, intervals and so forth.
I guess it could just be a temporary lack of ideas, and I want something to blame, though 2 years of steady decline is starting to worry me.
From the Majesty DVD
*Preppy girls walk by*
Brian: That was the biggest group of bitches I've ever seen!
Lets not forget the "I-don't-want-to-learn-theory-or-take-lessons-because-it-might-inhibit my-creativity-I think-I'm more-innovative-this-way"-kind
So true. Just way too played out, and seems so empty these days.I fucking hate that saying!![]()
Go to college for music? Fuck that! I like money, so I went to engineering school.
Funny how this thread was kinda hijacked into a music theory vs non music theory thread![]()
I hope to be one of those newer guys, I'll be applying to Berklee here soon
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That pic is so awesome!!a picture speaks a thousand words:
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I sort of hate most people in modern bands that got made. Most of them know shit and will buy into anything if you sell it to them. The people who follow them believe in that too.