how did you learn music theory?

school

by making music everyday and eventually it came to me

The little I know is from random shit on the internet that I pieced together throughout the years

with my ear. still can't read music

>>127166878 (OP)
I never did

Teachers at school, like a normal person. Imagine learning from youtube videos lmao

>>127166878 (OP)
never did and i compose some really good 15+ chords songs that actually sound more cohesive than any theory bfk can pull out, intuiton and God>music ""theory""

>>127166878 (OP)
I didn't, Reason why is cause it takes the fun out of it. Everytime I learn something it makes everything logical and boring

>>127166878 (OP)
also i want to add that you HAVE to learn the notes, the scales, and the intervals. You have to know what a 5th, a 9th, an 11th is. the only thing that is unnecesary is learning "why you should use X chord over Y", the circle of fifths, and all that jewish bullshit. but if you don't know how to tell your bandmates what key the song is in or what chord are you playing you're kinda screwed. you can come up with chords and not know their technical names but you should have enough knowledge to tell your bandmates "this chord is C B flat G# and F"

>>127166878 (OP)
Once I learned the intervals and how chords and scales are made from a formula based on the intervals it was over. My music theory knowledge skyrocketed from there

>>127166878 (OP)
Listening to Pet Sounds, Bach and Weezer's Pinkerton and figuring out what they were doing

>>127166878 (OP)
he looks like an awful person

>>127166878 (OP)
Never did. You learn a bit of theory and next thing you know you're being interviewed by this cunt.

>>127174688
based

>>127169500
>Teachers at school, like a normal person. Imagine learning from youtube videos lmao
looooool imagine paying thousands for shit that's free online

>>127169500
Must be nice. My music teacher was some failed musician weirdo who just had monologues every class and didn't teach anything. He gave everyone good grades but it still sucked. Now as an adult I wish I knew at least a little bit about music. I can't play even one song on the piano and my mind can't process both hands playing different things at once

>>127166878 (OP)
you can learn all of music theory in a half hour, everything after that is just memorization of scales and chords. learning theory is just constantly reading the same thing over and over with the hope you will get one new idea you havent thought of before, its constant reinventing the wheel