People often walk up to me and ask “What makes you so freekin awesome?”
Haha, no they don't. But people do ask how I make music theory seem so simple? I reply; “Because it is.”
Let me start with a little story.
I grew up in the golden age of guitar players. Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, and Alex Lifeson were staples in my CD player, and they played continuously.
Like anyone my age, I had the dream of being a rock star with tens-of-thousands of fans screaming their adoration while the groupies and the rock-star lifestyle awaited backstage. So I learned to play.
In this quest, I learned the pentatonic boxes, and I was on my way. I broke down everything I wanted to learn from the boxes.
Pentatonic boxes have limitations and tend to put you in a rut where everything you do sounds the same. Oh …show more content…
"Where I will I find it?" I asked.
He looks over his shoulder and leans in a little closer, like he's ready to divulge some state secret and gave me a one-word answer, "Theory man."
It's two words actually, but the second one doesn’t count. From my reaction, he knew precisely what I was thinking; the sudden glaze in my eyes and the posture of disappointment as my shoulders dropped, and one side of my lip lifted up as to say eww.
Hands up he said, "I understand, I get the same response from everyone I tell, but it's not as hard as you think and it holds all the answers you're looking for." I’d pondered the though of getting a degree in music and making a career out of teaching. This conversation convinced me; I enrolled for a transfer degree at the community college as a music major and started the fall semester.
The Classroom
Now I don't know the exact origin of the word 'droll' but I'm pretty sure it came from someone sitting in a music theory class, forehead resting on the eraser of a yellow #2 pencil, pointy end propped on the desk in one of the holes of a black and white speckled composition
Haha, no they don't. But people do ask how I make music theory seem so simple? I reply; “Because it is.”
Let me start with a little story.
I grew up in the golden age of guitar players. Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, and Alex Lifeson were staples in my CD player, and they played continuously.
Like anyone my age, I had the dream of being a rock star with tens-of-thousands of fans screaming their adoration while the groupies and the rock-star lifestyle awaited backstage. So I learned to play.
In this quest, I learned the pentatonic boxes, and I was on my way. I broke down everything I wanted to learn from the boxes.
Pentatonic boxes have limitations and tend to put you in a rut where everything you do sounds the same. Oh …show more content…
"Where I will I find it?" I asked.
He looks over his shoulder and leans in a little closer, like he's ready to divulge some state secret and gave me a one-word answer, "Theory man."
It's two words actually, but the second one doesn’t count. From my reaction, he knew precisely what I was thinking; the sudden glaze in my eyes and the posture of disappointment as my shoulders dropped, and one side of my lip lifted up as to say eww.
Hands up he said, "I understand, I get the same response from everyone I tell, but it's not as hard as you think and it holds all the answers you're looking for." I’d pondered the though of getting a degree in music and making a career out of teaching. This conversation convinced me; I enrolled for a transfer degree at the community college as a music major and started the fall semester.
The Classroom
Now I don't know the exact origin of the word 'droll' but I'm pretty sure it came from someone sitting in a music theory class, forehead resting on the eraser of a yellow #2 pencil, pointy end propped on the desk in one of the holes of a black and white speckled composition