Should there be a Music Theory General?

This is gonna be spammed in all your generals, theoryfags

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It's part of the "Spirited Away" soundtrack. Joe Hisaishi is perhaps my favourite movie composer and his piano pieces are amazing. I'm learning to play the piano just to play his scores.

youtu.be/mbUw-OgznyU
Just read the accidentals and stop complaining

This made me kek, thanks.

And heres one in C#
youtu.be/Z-c8WG2GTaI

I'm pissing myself but I honestly have no idea how many of these are real, or if they all are, or if it's all a joke

Not a single thing in that post makes musical sense

Neutron Star Collision is in C# Major

It would be nice but there are about 4 people on this whole board who can read music and only 2 of us understand music theory

>"""""""Music theory""""""""
Uh yeah, no

Lovely.
I've learned most of Faure's solo piano pieces and his shit is loaded with accidentals.
I never knew Bach smoked crack. C# major should not exist.

here you go
youtu.be/ESfnXDaRlv0

get off this fucking board

title is messed up it's in major

bros i’m kind of losing confidence in playing random notes and chords and hoping it sounds good but i refuse to learn any theory because that’s for nerds

No, but there should be a SOUL General.

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Music theory is retarded because the point at which you start hitting diminishing returns is so low. I would say any knowledge above intervals and scales (and all the adjacent concepts that are required to understand these) doesn't improve your ability to create good music BY MUCH. So unless you find the understanding of musical theory interesting in and of itself, it's pretty pointless to go too deep into it.

Look at what does sound good and try to generalize the principles that differentiate it from what doesn't sound good, then you can use it to create more stuff that sounds good.
But wait, other people have already done that.
And it's called music theory.
So you should probably learn it instead of trying to figure it out yourself.
Dumbfuck.

fuck off dummy

Beethoven's 24th piano sonata is in F# major, and Bach's WTC contains a prelude and fugue in every major and minor key, including F# major and C# major

this would work a hell of a lot better if stevie wonder wasn't the literal definition of soul

should i start learning music theory from youtube or is there a better place to learn it?

Props

books (I guess)
haven't tried learning anything from youtube videos so I don't really know

How did you learn it?

The thing is that if you write it as F# and C# you get notes such as B# and E#, which though they technically make sense, it can be bothersome (since those notes are actually just C and F). Doing it in flats is more 'comfortable' as you don't have to change the name of notes.

I went to solfege as a teen. I wouldn't say I learned theory. I know some of the most basic things.

No.

>He reads music and explains it
Sorry bro im too busy playing sick riffs that sound good to the ears.

how's this for a theory: if you rely on an "education" to be able to know what sounds good and what doesn't then you're a turobpleb

There is so much out there on YouTube for music theory. You could become a professional musician using the resources on YouTube no doubt

I mean the sound comes first and foremost, but it's really helpful to look at something and immediately know what it is, or hear something and know why it's effective. Then later on when you're playing you can steal it for yourself, like every good musician ever.

I used to think that theory was a very autist way of looking at music, until I started to try to write music. Theory helps you to know how to convey whatever it is you want to convey in your music, it is simply a tool.

That being said, if you aren't trying to write music, ignore theory.

nothing in that is real.

I don’t read music so I don’t have to worry about enharmonics. Therefore I know several pieces of music in F# or C# major.

>if I purposefully make up ridiculous sounding terms and pretend they are theory terms then theory sounds ridiculous! Take that!

Okay autist

Blatantly not true. Learning about how chords are created from scales and how modes and borrowed chords works is all very useful, and if you're learning any genre other than rock/pop learning more theory can take you far

musictheory.net/lessons

Go through all of these lessons and then once you finish that go to Michael New's music theory playlist on youtube (there's a lot of redundancy so you can skip Michael New's first dozen or so videos, or maybe more i dont remember). Once you get to that point just watching miscellaneous youtube videos on theory or looking up whatever you get curious can take you to the next theory step. Good luck

post your music right now

NO.

there are so many fascinating questions that deserve their own attention and answers - to kill them by submitting them to "MUH BOARD CULTURE" is a crime against art.

but lol Yas Forums wojak hur dur waifu so fucking whatever

I have never in my entire life met someone who is anti theory who actually knows any theory or someone who learned theory and regretted it, which is irrefutable proof in my mind that everyone who is against theory is just a coping lazy fag who doesn't want to admit that they are too lazy and/or don't care enough about music to learn more about it

Sure.
How can I tell in which key a song/piece of music is?

How many sharps/flats are there in the key signature? Is the song major or minor? Which corresponding key has that number of sharps/flats?

If you’re listening by ear then figure out which chords are in the song and which chord is the tonic. Is the tonic major or minor?

youtube.com/watch?v=ExMiyH2RzVQ
youtube.com/watch?v=lQabCdxJ6DM

youtube.com/watch?v=Z-c8WG2GTaI

Yas Forums is too underage and musically underdeveloped both as listeners and as musicians to have a music theory general without extreme autism. They only care about their cookie cutter "le alternative" flavour of the month pop music which they romantically think somehow conjured out of thin air by the sheer power of magic. Anything that doesn't follow that manifestation is obviously worthy of ridicule via memespeak.

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This

You're mixing two completely different things together; music theory doesn't tell you what "sounds good" (your ears/brain does that), but rather it describes what's going on with the music and why it sounds the way it does (not prescribing any value or goodness).

Love when I go to jam with new people and ask them to play a simple 1 4 5 progression and they look at me like I'm retarded and say "sorry man I don't use music theory, I don't want to limit my creativity with rules". So they play an E power chord for an hour and let their creative juices really flow!

>"sorry man I don't use music theory, I don't want to limit my creativity with rules"
>plays an E power chord for an hour
holy fuckin based

>in drumtime
Man, that's some deep shit!

>Phyrexian
I wish.

>theory has to be appliable

You're right that if they play an instrument they should know how to play a 1 4 5 progression, but there is a lot you can do over an E power chord. It's good practice in a way to see just how much you can play over a single chord