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> They described someone who learned to play the guitar without any background in music theory. I have no idea what guitarists and other musicians you know. I
by 0xFACEFEED 8y ago
> They described someone who learned to play the guitar without any background in music theory.
I have no idea what guitarists and other musicians you know. I know quite a few and they've had to put in serious work on music theory (most from a young age). Many also started out with instruments like early piano lessons and transitioned to guitar.
It's quite literally a language you need to learn (memorize); kinda like maths actually. Some things may seems intuitive but only savants can compose actual music without training in music theory.
- agentwiggles 8y agoI would guess that the _vast_ majority of guitarists learn that "G D Em C" sounds good _long_ before they understand that it's an I V vi IV progression. I started off playing guitar with three open string power chords, and I didn't have any understanding of theory for years of playing.
- throwawaymath 8y agoNo one is talking about composing music without a classical background. We're talking about playing music without the background. Composing music is to playing a chord progression as writing a naive algorithm implementation is to designing an optimal algorithm.