Timeline for Looking for advice on my self-taught music education
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| Mar 4, 2013 at 8:32 | comment | added | Kaz | If you're a newbie, study pop music. Pop music composition takes a shamelessly cookie cutter approach. The tunes are simple and when they do something neat (say, harmonically, borrowed from jazz or classical music) they make it obvious. You can learn a heck of a lot from the Beatles before you hit the Beethoven. | |
| Mar 4, 2013 at 8:29 | comment | added | Kaz | Classical music is a terrible way to pick up theory, and simply playing classical pieces will not do it. Many serious, long time classical music students can't follow a pop tune or improvise, because for years, they have just been following notes. If you tell them that the smooth jazz tune on the radio is based on a parallel mixolydian and natural minor scale, you will get blank stares, or "how can you tell that?" | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 22:32 | comment | added | Learning is a mess | Ok I have a quick experience with blues (I did a workshop couple of months ago, but I only knew a couple of chords and almost no theory at the time so I couldn't get the most of it) but I'm thinking about going through Justin's blues rhythmic guitar lessons on justinguitar.com . Maybe I should aim at that before entering in jazz, which really obscure for me and seems really dense and requiring much more theoretical notions. | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 19:52 | history | edited | Doktor Mayhem♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 22, 2013 at 18:33 | history | answered | Mat Birmingham | CC BY-SA 3.0 |