Absolutely (late) beginner to music theory - what a revelation
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“Not a student, not someone comfortable with much music, but exploring, rather late, whether I can please myself with learning the Ukelele. I LOVE getting my head around music theory. It’s the key to my making sense of what can sound to me like disturbing sounds, too much going on.
So this, rather advanced for my level, clear discussion of how scales and harmonies and intervals all work, why they work, that even musicians are constantly needing to practice ear training, and the rest of it, I am finding fascinating.
Obviously I have nerdish tendencies, tend to the academic approach, so this all works for me (even when I can’t follow it fully). Giving me vocabulary to help me understand what it is that draws me to early music, pentatonic scales, all that new to me explanation of modes.
This must be SO helpful to music students but wanted to say that it’s revelatory to people like me with more or less no music education and limited music in my childhood home.
I also think as a keen podcast listener that this works very well with the just-right balance between a bit of chat between the two presenters, a bit if warmth to enable the listener to feel this isn’t a text book audio book, but also authoritative substance. Listening from the UK. And thank you.
PS sadly I have to music late enough to have some age-related hearing loss - higher frequencies - as is common. Would be very interested to hear how musicians find this affects them. Hearing aids I find somehow distort (as programmed to enable spoken voice clarity) when I try to sing. What many/most people experience in middle age. Might you be able to explore that theme sometime? How does it affect people trying to develop or progress musical practice? Though doubt it comes into student curriculum!”
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Great Britain ·
10/25/23
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