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Ask HN: What's the best resource to learn music theory?
Beyond youtube videos, is there an interactive webpage that teaches from scratch? I'm sure it must exist by now something like that.
- _spduchamp 4y agoHN has a good list... https://hn.algolia.com/?query=music%20theory&sort=byPopularity https://hn.algolia.com/?query=music%20theory&sort=byPopulari... But if you are looking to understand making music programmatically, understanding rhythm is pretty important and i have not found any good rhythm resources except for Godfried Toussaint's book, which I'm studying now. Groove Pizza is a good online tool to experiment with rhythms as described in that book. Also... The Beatles couldn't read sheet music. Some of the best music in the world came from people who know nothing about music theory. You dont need to totally understand what you are doing to make something amazing and new. I encourage anyone to lay out their own path to find their music.
- brudgers 4y agoThere are old textbooks in the used book market. The basic ideas of academic harmonic analysis have been stable for many years. Any undergrad textbook from the last forty or fifty years, would be fine and will be more consistent with the academic language that forms the basis of music theory discussion.
- jacknobody 4y agoAfter playing guitar for 40 years as a self-taught, non-reading musician, I started using a key that is not usually discussed in books about music theory. My key is like C Major, but with an added G#, and the tonic can be either EM or Am. It gets used in "gypsy" jazz music. I encourage you to invent your own theory.
- dangravell 4y agohttps://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/front-matter/introduction/ https://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/front-matter/int...