On Sun, 2012-07-08 at 06:11 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > 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? PS: Sorry, "Maithuna", since all is one, but we need to differ some bullshit, as soon as we're searching for a finish speaking. So all isn't one?!. > ;) > > 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
