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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:37:06 -0400, Will Brake <wbrake@comcast.net> wrote: > How can you break the rules if you don't know them? I think this is one of the problems, that ppl think of theory as "rules". There aren't any rules so you can't break them. Theory is just for naming and studying what has been done. So if you come up with some really weird finger-twisting chord (i.e. "breaking the rules") you can give it a name. That's it. I think many people that haven't studied the fundamentals are under the impression that when you study music you're learning some magical formula to make music, and every time you make music you just do what they taught you in class. That is not the case at all. When you write you still use your ear...theory, if anything, just makes the whole process a lot easier. Some ppl unfortunatley do get way too wrapped up in theory, but that is their problem, not theory's. Of course one can still make great music without knowing a note you're playing, but if they think they're somehow coming up with some new musical language by "not knowing the rules" they are, more likely than not, mistaken. I'm reminded of a friend that only knows the basic chords for guitar and he is practically scared of trying to play anything beyond that. It has more to do with the person, not how much you've learned/not learned. -- ernesto schnack http://www.stringboy.net