Timeline for Chord progressions in Harmonic Minor
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| Feb 1, 2021 at 17:53 | comment | added | piiperi Reinstate Monica | @user316117 Knowing note names and noticing even a few elementary patterns such as intervals and chords gets you a long way. Go play music on an instrument - your brain will inevitably discover patterns automatically, that's its job. And if you have to choose between identifying non-applicable patterns from playing actual music, or identifying non-applicable patterns from theory, it's harder to get rid of the latter. One such mythical belief is that "music is in a scale", which is simply wrong and incompatible with reality. And it hurts many people's musical progress. | |
| Feb 1, 2021 at 17:41 | comment | added | piiperi Reinstate Monica | @user316117 Music is not a natural science, it's culture. But a part of the problem lies with teachers wanting to present logical constructs that can be put in an exam and judged in a "correct/incorrect" fashion, to get a numerical score. Scales are one of such things. But teachers should rather be more like coaches or personal trainers, guiding the student's own exploration and practicing and developing a taste. Another problem is internet "teachers" and algorithm-guided attention gathering which is engineered to produce lots of views. "The secret formula of the pros" etc. | |
| Feb 1, 2021 at 16:46 | comment | added | user316117 | "What causes the theory-first mentality?" In my case it's probably because my background is in engineering where you have to learn a lot of physics, calculus, etc, before you can "do" real engineering. A lot of fields are like that: medicine, physics and chemistry, etc. The other advantage of theory is that it helps organise what you otherwise experience subjectively. What could it mean to "know the existing literature" (as Todd Wilcox says) without being able to describe it or place it in a theoretical framework? | |
| Feb 1, 2021 at 15:14 | comment | added | phoog | @ToddWilcox it's not that hard to find literally diatonic music that is also interesting. | |
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| Feb 1, 2021 at 14:28 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | One could stay completely within a single seven note scale, but any music composed that way would be very challenged to stay interesting. I love how this answer emphasizes composing based on knowing the existing literature over knowing the “theory”. Knowing prior work in any form is the best way to move that form forward - in fact I find it makes it quite intuitive and it “feels” good. | |
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| Feb 1, 2021 at 8:39 | history | answered | piiperi Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |