Music Theory and Judgement

Are you able to become a great, famous musician if you know all about music theory?

 

Obviously not. 

 

You have to be much more. You have to be talented. You have to work hard. You have to have fantasy. You have to be determined and flexible at once. 

Music theory is just one little tool out of your pocket. It's the seed you put into the earth. If you care about it and water it with diligence it will grow and grow. 

Practice is the rest that grows out of it. Practice is the tree that grows out of it. And compared to the seed the tree is enormous, isn't it? :-) 

So to conclude: Don't care about others, that say your music is bad composed, or strange, or has no harmony. Do your thing. As long as you like your music there will be also others on the world who like it.

And stay original. Don't try to copy someone or something that already exists. Only if you make your own thing, you will stick out of the grey. And as you know: The grey mass is the territory of theory.

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