Any music students/have studied theory?

[lil_thang]

I practised jazz guitar at a university level before attending university to instead study Composition & Sonic Arts (yes sonic ha.ha.ha)

That is to say, i'm a smelly music theory person, I will not (outwardly) judge you for being a musician who ignores music theory and instead just 'plays by feel'/'the vibes bro'.

Are there any other smelly music theory people on here? If so, may I recommend this smelly music theory youtube channel, it is a very good time: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi7l9chXMljpUft67vw78qw

I specifically went to uni to study avant garde electronic music, after which then they promptly began to cut all papers related to the subject, oof. Consequently I had to take some more classical music, musicology and audio engineering papers to make up the lost points 2nd year onward.

I don't really do anything with this qualification other than judging other people online, lul. I still occasionally make things when inspiration strikes but that is increasingly once in a blue moon. Though I have recently taken some joy in slapping meme soundboard samples on pre existing tracks to make myself giggle like a child:

https://soundcloud.com/sorry-about_that%2Fwakeup-bingchill

 

[Octopus]

I've tried to learn some smelly music theory, I understand how keys and modes work but that's the extent of it. I'm fascinated by it though, but I think it's something that I'll never be able to fully get into or understand.

 

[dropsmegamega]

I know only the basic and go mostly by feel when composing, but as a fan of classical music I have interest in learning more in-depth theory. Still have to read Schoenberg's Harmony.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

I practised jazz guitar at a university level before attending university to instead study Composition & Sonic Arts (yes sonic ha.ha.ha)

That is to say, i'm a smelly music theory person, I will not (outwardly) judge you for being a musician who ignores music theory and instead just 'plays by feel'/'the vibes bro'.

Are there any other smelly music theory people on here? If so, may I recommend this smelly music theory youtube channel, it is a very good time: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi7l9chXMljpUft67vw78qw

I specifically went to uni to study avant garde electronic music, after which then they promptly began to cut all papers related to the subject, oof. Consequently I had to take some more classical music, musicology and audio engineering papers to make up the lost points 2nd year onward.

I don't really do anything with this qualification other than judging other people online, lul. I still occasionally make things when inspiration strikes but that is increasingly once in a blue moon. Though I have recently taken some joy in slapping meme soundboard samples on pre existing tracks to make myself giggle like a child:

https://soundcloud.com/sorry-about_that%2Fwakeup-bingchill

I don't have it as a major or minor but I do have an interest, I do use DAWs, I do like playing taiko in a club for fun, and I have taken one piano class in beginners ?
I also have a 88 key keyboard I drag around with me and I've gotten one joke about the wheeled suitcase I carry it in looking like a body bag ?

 

[goregoregoregoregoregore]

I never studied it, i just learned by experimentation and being a obsessed weirdo. But the ""music"" i do isn't something that most musicians would admire or want to analyze it(or be able to withstand listening at all lol)

 

[fake-kun]

I experimented with a pirated copy of FL Studio in high school.

 

[Parasite_Steve]

I was in a semi-professional choir for a couple of years and studied some western music theory on my own in the last 15 years but most of my own work is completely texture based, atonal, based on non-western scales and tonal systems or a combination of those. The fact it’s usually just called "music theory" as if it was an authority on music globally is why the term is smelly to me. I do enjoy composing in classical western scales from time to time as finger practice but it’s not something that has proven useful in my work and it gets boring very quickly.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

I used to sing in a garage band with friends in Highschool/Collage. I enjoy karaoke too.

I mess around with VX4 Miku from time to time but don't really have anything to show for it.

 

[DunkeyKong]

I used to sing in a garage band with friends in Highschool/Collage. I enjoy karaoke too.

I mess around with VX4 Miku from time to time but don't really have anything to show for it.

That sounds fun! I'd love to hear that garage band

 

[Don Patch]

Yo, I gottchu. ?
Two years theory, two years studio engineering, semester avant garde studies, electronic music, ethno-musicology, Internship for databending /glitch in composition.
Plus all the freelance gigs doing whatever the hell

 

[ZombieFish]

Never studied formally, but I do watch a lot of Beato.

 

[mlastes1987]

I know the circle of fifths and some chord progressions.

 

[Nidstang]

I played clarinet and bass clarinet in band/marching band for 9 years. I went to college in Nashville and have a bachelor's degree in music business. I've worked as an audio engineer/studio technician for 10 years. I've played in bands (guitar and vocals) for around 15 years. I tried learning music theory on and off for years.

I never retained any of it.

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

i dont rlly know any music theory, i should probably learn lol

 

[Karnik]

I have been playing the diatonic harmonica for twenty years now. I read music sheets, but I usually play by following online tablatures, which usually show the hole numbers, and not the musical notes. But for those who know the blues harmonica, it is the ability to improvise that counts most, and in this respect I have now become a fairly good master of this instrument. ?

 

[Antilocal123]

Theory of what? Theory of relativity? String theory? The theory that Tobi is Obito? What kind of theory is a music student meant to discover?

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

Theory of what? Theory of relativity? String theory? The theory that Tobi is Obito? What kind of theory is a music student meant to discover?

Me when I see people studying music theory (with love )

 

[ZombieFish]

I used to feel that way a bit, cause I'd only been exposed to people who EITHER studied OR rocked the fuck out, and never BOTH. But there's people who do both. And the dry, stodgy, puritanical stuff is only the crusty surface of one particular school of theory. It does music a disservice when academics and laypeople alike reduce theory to those terms. Dig deeper and music theory is vital anthropology, sacred geometry, a glimpse at the interface between soul and body. It is form itself. It's the language of space/time. That's what a student is meant to discover. I think it's neat.