What You Need To Know Before You Learn: Music Theory
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We create and listen to music to satisfy our innate need to communicate or express what it means to be humanā€”to share our stories and life lessons and evoke a range of feelings, moods, and emotions. Therefore, music is a language, and when learning any language, fluency is the goal.
Various teaching methodologies exist within the Western tonal music system. While opinions on these methods may differ, their shared goal is to teach the language of music. Unfortunately, many current methods appear to be ineffective, as evidenced by the notably high dropout rates, among other issues. This problem affects not onlyĀ students but also hasĀ broader implications for teachers and society as a whole.
So, why are current teaching methodologies falling short?
To understand this, we need to look at the learning experience. The current teaching methodologies may be alienating because students do not fully comprehend why certain things work and others do not. Theory comes from the outside as something to accept. Therefore, they lack grammar or a narration that puts everything into context, making music theory accessible and meaningful.
This course aims to reframe the learning experience by adopting a remarkably simple yet astute assumption: all music, regardless of the genre or time period in which it was created, including all music theory terms and topics, can be distilled down to one Unifying Concept. This implies that understanding one concept is all you need to easily comprehend everything related to music. Regardless of the aspect of music being discussed, it can be analyzed in these terms.
Learning music is incredibly important and can enrich your life in ways you may not have even imagined.Ā We invite you to try our book with aĀ 30-day money-back guarantee, or our Step-by-Step Online Video Course with a 7-day money-back guarantee.
