> On 3 July 2012 19:05, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice- > > For "musicians" with an academical background it's very important, > for > > people who are simply musicians this kind of theory is completely > > unimportant. > > thanks for speaking on behalf of all of us ralf. or perhaps on the > other hand, we're grown up enough to decide for ourselves? > > -- > robin > > http://fu.ac.nz - Auckland's Free University I'm not anti academies. All I wanted to say is: "Don't care too much about how chords are named and why they are named, the way they are named. Just take care that the emotion that should be transported by your music, is transported by your music." IIRC another reply was regarding to "it's better to know how to name chords, than to say 'put one finger to that fret and another finger to this fret'" Full ACK, but in the beginning nobody is able to know that and after a while everybody is able to know what to do, we neither need to name a chord, nor to say where to put the fingers. Just for the record, to know a chord's name doesn't protect to say "put one finger here and another finger there", there are 3 inversions, for three notes and for string instruments such as a guitar, we have additional extensions, such as two strings should or shouldn't play the same note. One and the same named chord could cause different emotions. Is it an advantage to be able to see on which key, which fret a finger should be? For beginners it usually is, but after a while nobody does visually control where the fingers should be. IMO for musical theory it's similar. Btw. IMO music is similar to sex and far away from astrophysics. Academical rules for astrophysics are good, but I suspect nobody is using books to get knowledge how to have sex. Does anybody seriously studies tantra? ;) Just 2 Cents, since the topic already is solved. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
