Any good introductory guide for learning the very basics of music theory? I have no real practical need for it but have always been really curious about it. This cheatsheet is very cool but a lot of the terminology is beyond me.
Interactive Music Theory Cheat Sheet
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your phone is on mute. This website has been posted here at least once a month since launch.
It’s not. I can listen to audio from anywhere else except this site. Just hooked my phone up to look at the console and noted that the resources are not being loaded. I have a pihole running and checked that log and can see that fish.muted.io is being blocked due to it being listed in in one of the pihole default blocklists that it downloads. That’s enough for me to give it a miss anyway.
Thanks for this Fish note. Well spotted.
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#23This is fantastic. I didn't grow up learning music and found so much of it seeming arbitrary and incomprehensible. This really pairs well with a 30min video[0] I watched taking away so much mystery and showing 'patterns in the madness'. It would be good if there were some keybindings to play notes (e.g. digits for I, II, or letters for notes ignoring #/b, or "r t y u i o p ["). A toggle to label the notes that are pa…
If you want a longer, entertaining introduction to music theory with an emphasis on using things like modes to actually write songs, I highly recommend YouTuber Jake Lizzio (Signalsmusicstudio)
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#24I've seen similar references before but this is very well done, so I've bookmarked it. Particularly like the overlapping keyboard
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#25Neat. A version for guitar might be quite popular. Also extending the range of scales. Pick your favorite ones from the 4096 possibilities or maybe all of them :-) [0]
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#26I just started learning the piano again, and using modern apps (such as Simply Piano) makes it actually fun. Ten years ago, I couldn't bear through reading sheet music, making mistakes and got discouraged. But now, learning to play is like playing Guitar Hero. You get instant feedback, guidance on what and how to play. It's great. We'll see how long it stays "fun", but atm I'm making progress every day.
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#27Any good introductory guide for learning the very basics of music theory? I have no real practical need for it but have always been really curious about it. This cheatsheet is very cool but a lot of the terminology is beyond me.
Language Transfer have a course on music theory that I've been quite enjoying, for the low, low price of free (although if you like it, consider giving a donation): https://www.languagetransfer.org/music
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#28Very interesting, would be nice to have a switch to change the notation (at least the solfeggio/solfege one). I'm European and really I can't work with C D E F G A B.
Germans also name the notes differently (C, D, E, F, G, A, H) which has unfortunately spread to some other countries too (like in Finland, which confuses me a lot because I've learnt so much music stuff online that uses the more logical naming).
I was taught H instead of B 30 years ago, and it makes me mad - my brain still refuses to think of notes as simply a rotating portion of ordered alphabet letters. I spent last two years trying to get back into piano and guitar and I feel I'm constantly hampered by not having that intuitive "oh, c to g is 5 notes" or even "what comes after B is C" and "what comes after G is C". I literally have to count on fingers as if they're randomized symbols (and fwiw I am pretty good at intuitively grokking mod 7 in other contexts) It's awful.
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#29I just started learning the piano again, and using modern apps (such as Simply Piano) makes it actually fun. Ten years ago, I couldn't bear through reading sheet music, making mistakes and got discouraged. But now, learning to play is like playing Guitar Hero. You get instant feedback, guidance on what and how to play. It's great. We'll see how long it stays "fun", but atm I'm making progress every day.
I'm on the fence about apps like Simply Piano. I have a subscription since more than half a year and yes it's fun and I'm making progress albeit slowly. But I have the impression that it focuses too much on simple songs or techniques.
When I look at the introductory piano books of my wife I'm completely overwhelmed. Like my mind is unable to process the notes without an app that tells me what keys to press. Can't really explain it. I won't cancel my subscription yet. but I think that at some point 1-to-1 interactions with a teacher is invaluable.
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#30Neat. A version for guitar might be quite popular. Also extending the range of scales. Pick your favorite ones from the 4096 possibilities or maybe all of them :-) [0] [0] https://ianring.com/musictheory/scales/
There are several guitar-specific tools on the site.
Ex:
https://muted.io/guitar-scales/