Do people who know "Music Theory" enjoy listening to music more than those who don't?
people who know music theory tend to not enjoy much of anything in my experience
It depends. Many people don't like having the magic spoiled for them, but personally learning theory made me feel so much more "aware" when listening to music. It's similar to the effect you get from low doses of psychoactive drugs. I avoid theory like the plague when actually writing music though
>>130697077It's nice when you hear something in a song that sounds good and you know why it works
>>130697381what's the theory behind why things like I-III-IV or even bVI-I sound so good? functional harmony doesn't cover everything
>>130697077every time i recognize a familiar chord progression i want to punch the wallI-vi-IV-V causes me unfathomable amounts of pain
The most important thing is just to tell other people that they know. It's like being vegan
>>130697535If you start a thread with "do vegans do such and such" then obviously there will be vegans chiming in with their personal experience, don't be autistic about this anon
music theory just boils down to "humans evolved to recognize when there's one voice speaking vs multiple voices because we're social animals that relied on these skills for survival when we were still living in caves". That's why notes sound comforting in the same key and scale but get more dissonant the more you diverge from the key center or root of the scale. That's all there is to it. It's difficult to even sound bad if you play on-key within a given scale, I'd argue it's pretty much impossible in fact. Music sounds more interesting when you play with these ideas
>>130697783>don't be autistic about this anonHow dare you
>>130697269how do you write music
>>130697077Bump
>>130697077no because they overanalyze it
>>130697381Does this happen to you when a simple pop song is effective?
>>130697077haha OP I love froggo XD
>>130697077Yes. Very much so.
>>130697269yeah, I think there's a sweet spot somewhere. If you play music long enough you inevitably learn /some/ theory and that def helps with listening. I know rhythm/time stuff and scales/modes, but there's a lot I don't know. I can pick out a major or minor 7th involuntarily by ear for example and get enjoyment out of that when I recognize it. I wanna say that more knowledge can always get you more enjoyment, but maybe that has to come after you've developed a lot of taste already. Lots of theory dorks I know can't enjoy anything that isn't technically interesting which is a shame
>>130697535rent free
>>130697077absolutely. I practice active listening rather than just using music as background noise. I have a deeper connection to it.
>>130703010>have a deeper connection to it.see how theory nigs lie about everything? they're always like theory this, theory that but when you ask to hear their music it's always shit.
Do people who understand prostate theory enjoy prostate orgasms more?
>>130705677call me a liar to my face, pussy
>>130705677>but when you ask to hear their music it's always shit.Can you give us an example of someone who doesn't know music theory and made good music then?
I love watching tards seethe because their brains are too small for theory. Sorry brainlets, Music is a size queen. She will never let you in, and you will never experience the full depths of musical enjoyment.
>>130706564https://youtu.be/HjKKvGsL09o
>>130706651Epic troll
>>130697077Music theory is just putting names to sounds, idk why people get so worked up about this concept. Is it nice to be able to pick out when a progression has secondary dominants or modal mixtures? Sure, but your ears can appreciate it without knowing what it's called and precisely how it's constructed. Great music can be made without having an understanding of it, but it is rare that having an understanding of music theory actively subtracts from one's ability to make music.
>>130697077No. Enjoying theory is a sign of autism and autistic people don't enjoy anything unless it's porn related.
>>130706564Ennio Morricone couldn't write or read a partition, and he's hands down the best composer of the 20th century.
>>130710923you can know theory and not know how to read sheet music
>>130706831it also gives a babble lexicon to midwits that will explain to you how fucking amazing a (bad) song is because it uses so many borrowed chords and dissonant intervals it's actually atonal.music theory fags like music that doesn't follow music theory, if it does they find it boring
>>130710930yeah, to be fair he probably knew it well on guitar.(he wrote tablatures)
>>130710943this kind of thinking is the result of learning theory through youtube videos about "SPICY chords" instead of studying functional harmony like a normal person
>>130697077>Do people who know "Music Theory" enjoy listening to music more than those who don't?I don't know, but they sure seem to be enjoying absolute shit that sounds "clever" to them (omg look, this chord is INVERTED), and despising music that is more simple and illiterate. they are right to despise the current pop goyslop and its formulas though.
>>130706564You actually don't realize that this is a stupid question?
>>130711023Eh, most contemporary theoryfags are weirdly poptimist and obsessed with finding profound meaning in simple and illiterate music. There are a billion theoretical analyses online of 4 chord pop progressions. I feel like this ties back to >>130711021, they're either illiterate when it comes to classical music or cucked by academia into finding it embarrassing to appreciate anything high-brow and european
>>130711059Yes, because you have to know music theory to compose good music. You're starting to understand, keep going buddy
>>130705782If there was such thing as prostate theory then yes, they would.
>>130711255So you're being a gay little pedant and taking anyone that's made good music as having implicit understanding of it, making responding to you about this pointless
>>130697077There are some pieces though like 4′33″ that come before theory where theory needs some ketchup, where practices get and gets to precede theoria and theoria metaphysica and therians and enharmonic mode and metaphysic theoria and theoretica metaphysica and theories and theory
Some chord progressions are over used but I wouldn't say being able to recognize them is knowing music theory. Knowing it does make listening to classical music more interesting because you can see the progress being made through history
>>130706564Hardly any popular artist of the last 80 years knew theory that well. They learned it intuitively but not by the books
>>130697077I don't think they do, but they did brainscans on musicians and non-musicians listening to music, and it was interesting. With non-musicians, emotional parts of the brain lit up. but with musicians both the emotional and logical parts of the brain lit up, meaning they were analyzing the music at the same time it was having an emotional impact on them. I think if you listen to music really deeply it's only natural that you begin to analyze it with or without theory, but theory gives you the tools and language to understand what's happening, at least more precisely.
I still don't know what people mean when they say "music theory", because most music theory can be learned in a day or two and sure there is more advanced theory but no one is learning 12 tone invertable counterpoint to analyze pop music
im 135 iq and created over 20 albums all using the same math equation on the korg app on switchkurt cobain killed himself for my birthdate and ive had freemasons making art of me my entire life, same thing as grimes but a lot more and im born 6 years after herim very unknown at large despite opaquely posting about this on mu for years now, most of my videos have less than 200 views and 97% of my views are under 30 secondsi guess musicians just download my videos off youtube and listen, which is cool, i literally have zero intention of profiting off youtube and actually wish i could pay for premium plus and remove ads from my own videosi have heard my music referenced in stuff a lot by now, which was always my vision, each of the hundreds of "songs" i have made is poor structure but excellent sound texture and very short, and i genuinely believe each one could be recontextualized into a radio hiti took guitar lessons and just learned to pick for a few months then started, i know i will never be known at large while alive thoughwhats the point of this post? fuck you
>>130717204>i guess musicians just download my videos off youtube and listenWho here is gonna be the one to break the news to him?
