Do you really NEED music theory?

In music, there is serious debate (and confusion) about music theory. The question is -- do you really NEED to learn it or not? Well, the answer may surprise you....

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Welcome
1:36 Begin topic -- Neil Diamond quote
2:27 Bach quote
3:34 Gwen Stefani lyrics
4:20 McCartney lyrics
5:20 Bach quote #2 ... roast goat
5:38 Quincy Jones quote
6:52 Stephen Nachmanovitch quote
8:23 An important distinction -- music theory vs black dots
10:00 Looking at notation -- the composer (creator) vs the performer (following the leader)
10:58 John Scofield quote
11:30 Blake Judd quote
12:33 Amos Lee quote
13:07 Black Francis quote
13:58 Pablo Picasso quote
14:46 Music is order (noise is chaos)
15:09 Color illustrations of theory
16:09 Myka 9 quote
16:55 Who needs music theory? (Only those who want to create their own music.)
19:42 Your thoughts?
28:35 More of your thoughts on theory
30:30 Bach's Coffee Cantata
34:43 Does anyone have a favorite composer here?

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[thejohnnybravopage]

Bro, you deserve atleast 10x more subscribers for the content you make. Valuable info!!

[brianbrino]

Everybody should learn music theory in general and intensive music theory for musical people and mostly for musicians! I am a musician love classical music and can sing to you some parts of symphonies and concerts but I played my bass guitar and sang lead or harmonies in my band! Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the very best! But I did not need music theory! I just played by ear! Thank you for your fabulous program!

[nvdawahyaify]

Jethro Tull is the name of the band. The flautists name is Ian Anderson.

I see music theory and standard western notation as completely separate. Ancient China had music theory long before the west had written notation. As did ancient india.
I've always thought of music theory as the study of how music works. Not how we represent the music on a page. That's why there are several ways to represent music on a page, even though they are discussing the same ideas.

[jamesbuchanan]

this was a good session. I started learning piano about 15 months ago and right from the start I began learning theory. I do know the difference between theory and notation and as Mike stated theory is for people who want to create which I hope to do at some point. I have started writing some lyrics and am a far way off from full verses and a chorus. Theory will get me there with a melody and chords to back it up as I proceed with this slowly.

[TheWooTubes]

Black Francis is Francis Black, front man of 'The Pixies'.

[lawrencetaylor]

Bach came from a family of generations of musicians. And he had 20 kids.
At family gatherings they would play music and make up bawdy lyrics.

[Nihuaching]

When is your chord book coming out Mike?

[homfu]

learning music is like lyrics of Metallica - the struggle within
i understand the pain of not understand