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It feels like being able to hear someone say something and repeat it back to them :) Fluency comes from learning theory implicitly. Implicit theory knowledge c
by upveto 8y ago
It feels like being able to hear someone say something and repeat it back to them :)
Fluency comes from learning theory implicitly. Implicit theory knowledge comes from spending a lot of time listening to music you want to emulate, and then painstakingly emulating it on your instrument.
Your mistakes will elucidate the nature of the music.
- Jazz Pianist
- osrec 8y agoInteresting, so it's just practice followed by more practice? Something I've recently started is putting on a music video and then trying to play along with it. It's pretty tough, but I manage a few bits here and there...
- colanderman 8y agoIt helps a lot to be able to recognize if something is on a standard diatonic scale & chord progression, or uses chromatics and modulations. It greatly reduces the search space if you know the notes and chords you're trying to find are out of 7 choices rather than 12/48+. If you can't recognize that yet, finding tablature or sheet music can help you tell for a given song, before you go banging your head against a wall trying to figure out something that is musically unusual.
- pattrn 8y agoI completely agree with this. Learning music theory helped me play by ear because it helped me associate a feeling with a progression or chord. This made learning by trial and error much easier, since it stuck more (I tried it without much success when I was younger). - Also Jazz Pianist
- matt_the_bass 8y agoFor me the theory helps me understand how to execute what I hear in my head.