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This video is all about guitar music theory,
how confusing it is for beginners to guitar,
whether it's even possible to learn guitar
and not learn music theory, and mostly: what
it's good for.
If I had to sum up my opinion on whether or
not you need to learn guitar music theory,
I'd say this: You don't need to learn it to
enjoy playing guitar, but you do need to learn
it in order to play specific genres of guitar.
Insisting that you must learn guitar music
theory to enjoy every single style of guitar
is like saying you cannot enjoy painting unless
you know everything about color theory before
you start.
Now, if you can imagine saying something like that to a bunch of kindergarten kids, that's not gonna go well!
Many guitar teachers will tell you straight-faced that you must learn guitar music theory in order to
play guitar.
To that, please consider that your enjoyment
of guitar is separate from your current understanding
of guitar music theory.
Let me say this again: Your enjoyment of guitar... your enjoyment... your ability to enjoy the guitar, is completely separate from your ability to
understand music theory.
They are not dependent upon each other!
If you don't know any music theory, it doesn't
affect your enjoyment of your favorite song.
If you don't know all the names of the band
members, the songs, the albums, and the run
time for each song of your favorite band,
it won't stop you from having fun at their concert.
You aren't required to know everything about guitar in order to enjoy playing guitar, to express
yourself on guitar.
If you don't believe me, understand that neither
Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, or Paul McCartney
had ever learned a lick of music theory and
still, these guys had a ball with guitar.
Now, I know that there are some guitar teachers
who would cry foul at what I just said.
They would say that Jimi Hendrix and John
Lennon, Paul McCartney, are exceptions, that none of us can
possibly measure up to them.
That may or may not be so, but I use them
as examples because it proves that it is possible
to learn guitar without learning guitar music
theory.
It is a complete and total fallacy that we
cannot learn, enjoy, or otherwise play guitar
without knowing guitar music theory.
It's a total lie, and I beg you not to believe it!
Now, here's the catch: There are times when learning guitar
music theory is super appropriate for what
you want to do on guitar.
For some genres of guitar, like jazz guitar
for example, we need to know music theory
inside and out.
So, now we need to look at the most popular
styles of genres of guitar and see if whether
or not learning guitar music theory will be
beneficial for us, based on what kind of genre
we want to learn.
Let's hit it.
Acoustic Rhythm Guitar.
Most beginners to guitar are interested in
learning the acoustic rhythm guitar style,
which is basically just strumming and learning
to play chords.
You don't need to learn any guitar music theory
to enjoy playing this style of guitar.
Electric Rhythm Guitar.
I think that if you only want to play Nirvana
songs or just turn your amp up loud, you might
not get very much from learning theory.
Go for it if you want, but I'd honestly recommend
for you to spend more time learning how to
play a lot of songs.
Fingerpicking Guitar.
For the most part, you won't have to learn
about music theory but it wouldn't hurt.
Follow up on specific music theory terms if
you're cuious, but otherwise, let it go.
Rock Lead Guitar.
Rock lead guitar can be positively affected
by learning guitar music theory.
Specifically, I'd recommend that you learn
to play guitar scales, and learn to understand
and decifer the Nashville number system.
That said, keep in mind that plenty of lead
guitarists have gone without knowing much
about this stuff, like Jimi Hendrix for example.
Blues Lead Guitar.
You'll need to know pentatonic and blues guitar
scales very well if you want to do blues guitar.
You'll definitely need to know the twelve
bar blues form.
Otherwise, anything else is debatable if it's
a waste of time Or not.
Jazz Guitar.
Yes, you will need to learn a lot of guitar
music theory to play jazz guitar.
You can start by learning guitar music notation
and guitar scales.
Classical Guitar.
Classical guitar relies on guitar music notation;
You'll have to learn how to read music.
This one skill will lend itself naturally
to harmonic analysis later on, especially
if you get more interested in performing classical
guitar...
I hope this video provides more clarity about guitar
music theory.
Just remember my opinion on this: It's not required for you to learn music theory if your goal is to simply
enjoy playing acoustic rhythm guitar, but
if you're looking to play blues, jazz, or
classical guitar, you'll be positively affected
by learning it.
In the next video, I'm gonna go over learning
to read guitar music and what it is good for.
If you've ever thought that you needed to
learn to read music in order to learn guitar,
the next video is for you.
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