WakeandBake
Well-known member
yep.
that raises an interesting point. I took guitar lessons for a while a few years back and I went in wanting to learn the "theory" (I thought.) I told my teacher that I wanted to learn why music things were the way they were, why notes were played together or not played together. I really thought if I learned why, then I would be a better natural songwriter and player. Like the way you study history or something. But as I started to learn things I realized it didn't really matter why, what mattered the most - for my purposes - was learning the basics of keys and chords and blues changes, and then letting my ear develop and eventually take over. It hit me one day and as we were getting into it I said "I don't think Pete Townshend knows all this stuff about mixolydian mode and all that, do you? " He laughed and agreed that he probably didn't know what it was called or why it was the way it was, but that his ear knew it well from repetition and experience. Perhaps Sir Paul doesn't want to know too much and see music written out and diagrammed and clinical and prefers to leave that to the technicians.
that raises an interesting point. I took guitar lessons for a while a few years back and I went in wanting to learn the "theory" (I thought.) I told my teacher that I wanted to learn why music things were the way they were, why notes were played together or not played together. I really thought if I learned why, then I would be a better natural songwriter and player. Like the way you study history or something. But as I started to learn things I realized it didn't really matter why, what mattered the most - for my purposes - was learning the basics of keys and chords and blues changes, and then letting my ear develop and eventually take over. It hit me one day and as we were getting into it I said "I don't think Pete Townshend knows all this stuff about mixolydian mode and all that, do you? " He laughed and agreed that he probably didn't know what it was called or why it was the way it was, but that his ear knew it well from repetition and experience. Perhaps Sir Paul doesn't want to know too much and see music written out and diagrammed and clinical and prefers to leave that to the technicians.
