The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #77548   Message #1389231
Posted By: Peter T.
26-Jan-05 - 01:41 PM
Thread Name: Basic Music Theory Question
Subject: RE: Basic Music Theory Question
One of the hardest things to learn -- and it is really just a question of sitting and listening like forever, unless you are musically talented -- is how chord changes work when you are playing. R. Fielding used to work me over endlessly to hear the changes, and then connect them -- "can you hear the C, C7, F" movement", etc. Eventually I began to be able to hear them, but it was weird -- as soon as I got some theory, it got easier to pick out with my ear what was happening, and I could anticipate what was going to happen next.

An interesting mix of theory and lots of listening.

yours,

Peter T.