Theory can be an important thing to know if you want to explore why certain things sound certain ways or a useful thing to help write a song. Like I've written stuff just by choosing a random key and time signature and seeing where it goes. Normal music in B flat minor with a 7/8 time signature.
But eventually music is just what sounds good. Do what you like and people who get obsessed with rules and theory are complete dorks who hate fun and love pain. "Oh yes this is a F#dAug7 chord" yeah ok man I'm just hitting notes
This. Theory isn’t and shouldn’t be a prescriptivist set of rules. For everything we say sounds bad you can typically find some context where it can be interesting or pleasant somewhere else
. I meanif you bang a diminished fifth it sounds pretty nasty, (unless that’s what you’re going for, really accounting for taste opens up a whole other bag of subjective worms tbh) but it can sound great in a flat V minor 7th chord.
People that get prescriptivist on theory are just trying to make an interesting personality around having “superior” knowledge instead of just enjoying music. It’s tool to understand music more deeply, that’s it
Theory can be an important thing to know if you want to explore why certain things sound certain ways or a useful thing to help write a song. Like I've written stuff just by choosing a random key and time signature and seeing where it goes. Normal music in B flat minor with a 7/8 time signature.
But eventually music is just what sounds good. Do what you like and people who get obsessed with rules and theory are complete dorks who hate fun and love pain. "Oh yes this is a F#dAug7 chord" yeah ok man I'm just hitting notes
This. Theory isn’t and shouldn’t be a prescriptivist set of rules. For everything we say sounds bad you can typically find some context where it can be interesting or pleasant somewhere else
. I meanif you bang a diminished fifth it sounds pretty nasty, (unless that’s what you’re going for, really accounting for taste opens up a whole other bag of subjective worms tbh) but it can sound great in a flat V minor 7th chord.
People that get prescriptivist on theory are just trying to make an interesting personality around having “superior” knowledge instead of just enjoying music. It’s tool to understand music more deeply, that’s it