I just wanna rock – Why do I have to study musical scales or music theory? For years, I avoided music theory like the plague. I just couldn’t get interested in it. It felt too much like schoolwork, and too little like the fun release from work that playing music offered. So I did my [...]
May 292011
Music is all about symmetry, order, and patterns. There are so many subtle patterns at play – both from a mathematical and theoretical standpoint as well as from a tonal (or audible) perspective – in any given musical composition that it can take quite a while to really understand a piece of music. We tend [...]