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hello, recently I have been getting really in to trying to learn this, but half of the things i read make absolutely no sense at all. What is the best way to learn musical theory? I was thinking of maybe taking piano lessons, but I dont care about how to play the piano i just want to learn chords scales, progressions, and circle of fiths stuff. I dont want to spend a lot of time with finger placement and things like that. Well what do you guys recomend? thanks

Ravenspiral Guide to Musical Theory - http://ravenspiral.com/ravenspiralguide.pdf

wub wrote:Ravenspiral Guide to Musical Theory - http://ravenspiral.com/ravenspiralguide.pdf

damn wub i think ur the best mod that touched this site. everywhere i look your posting useful information or helping the community in some way...

thanks for the link though ill def be skimming that. i need to learn more musical theory.

wub wrote:Ravenspiral Guide to Musical Theory - http://ravenspiral.com/ravenspiralguide.pdf

Agree, this is a fantastic guide.

lyons238 wrote:

wub wrote:Ravenspiral Guide to Musical Theory - http://ravenspiral.com/ravenspiralguide.pdf

damn wub i think ur the best mod that touched this site. everywhere i look your posting useful information or helping the community in some way...

thanks for the link though ill def be skimming that. i need to learn more musical theory.

Didnt i already link this to you when you posted a similar thread to this one? haha

I was never much a fan for reading about music myself. So Ill put in my two cents.

If you have 0 musical background then look up the main major and minor scales. Understand the "Whole Step, Whole Step. Halfstep" concept and it will give one the basic grasp on scales. Then... Experiment. Try changing a note in the scale and see where it takes you. Sure you can memorize the "Blue Scales" and the Harmonic Minors by heart. But I found it was much more fun to "discover" them on my own.

Its how I did it. Plus it gets you off the ground faster.

Musictheory.net

thanks for all of the replys! i have checked out all the websites, but i am still confused on how to use the circle of fifths. So say i have a melody in the root note of C. Using the circle of fifths, do i move the entire melody up until the root note is in G? If this is correct, say i was using a different scale, I would just move the melody up until the root note was the fifth key in the original scale?

thanks for all of the replys! i have checked out all the websites, but i am still confused on how to use the circle of fifths. So say i have a melody in the root note of C. Using the circle of fifths, do i move the entire melody up until the root note is in G? If this is correct, say i was using a different scale, I would just move the melody up until the root note was the fifth key in the original scale?

What's the point of learning it?

Foreplay wrote:What's the point of learning it?

LOL, tell me you're joking...

Mear Bace wrote:

Foreplay wrote:What's the point of learning it?

LOL, tell me you're joking...

I should've added some type of note indicating i wasn't serious.

Foreplay wrote:

Mear Bace wrote:

Foreplay wrote:What's the point of learning it?

LOL, tell me you're joking...

I should've added some type of note indicating i wasn't serious.

This usually works well in those instances >>>