Start theorizing about music

I just watched this video by 12Tone and if you haven’t seen their videos they’re definitely worth checking out.

This specific one is about becoming a music theorist. And one thing that they say is that if you want to become a music theorist then start theorizing about music. They then explain that it’s useful to know what people have theorized about music before, but in order to become a music theorist you need to theorize about music.

They also mention a few specific ideas in classical music theory that were useful to learn about, but not necessarily applicable in writing the music that they wanted to write, which in their case was heavy metal and rock music.

So. Theorize about music. If you want to write about music start writing about, then start writing about music.

The first times you do it might not be great, but the only way to get good at it is to do it.

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