AZALI | blossom tea @AZALI00013 | Uploaded April 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
A short song made in FL Studio 21 using just a piano, flute, and some strings !!
happy song
this song was a commission for a project !!!
feel free to email me if you'd like to commission a custom song yourself :)
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spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/7xUEVAixJOG51xLGQvRCLH?si=TOglGrGmTwumfATfysq4Wg
contact: azali00013@gmail.com
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4-7-2024 - My Thoughts on Music Theory
The more I learn about music theory, the less I'm sure it really matters.
When I first started making music, I had a pretty warped view of what theory was. I saw it as a hassle to learn, and something that would force your ideas into a tiny box, governed by sets of rules.
Originally, I hated this. I felt it really constrained creativity, and influenced beginner artists to postpone the cultivation of their own unique style, in substitute for the simple patterns and rules offered by beginner music theory.
To be honest, I still feel this way when it comes to some of the simpler things.
However, since the time I started making music and the moment of progress and knowledge I exist at now, I realize my views were pretty shortsighted in retrospect.
A little while ago, maybe around 4 months in the past by now, I decided I would start trying to learn a lot more theory! Mostly, I focused on aspects of harmony, such as extensions, modal interchange, understanding the circle of fifths, tools for chord writing, and many others.
Even now, I don't fully understand many of these concepts, but through learning them and seeing their effect on the music I compose, my views have really changed.
I believe that music theory in essence, is how we try to logically organize and convey the patterns we see in music. It isn't like what makes music sound good, or what makes music music haha
In the same sense that language is how we try to logically organize and convey the patterns we see in our thoughts.
Its more than possible to have thoughts regardless of being able to put them into words, but it is these words that give us not only a way to communicate our thoughts to others, but the ability to see the world through their lens.
By learning more words, we slowly build a framework to understand the world around us and to even better understand more complex words through them.
I often wonder what my thoughts would be like if I had no language or medium to channel them through. I would still have thoughts, that much is certain. But how complex might they be?
I now understand that music theory is no different.
By understanding concepts in music theory, we slowly build a framework to understand both music and more complex topics in music theory themselves.
Saying the rules of simpler music theory limit creative expression is equal to a child arguing that learning the basic rules of language would limit the vast complexity of their inner thoughts. They're not wrong, however they may not see that learning these rules is just the beginning. What's more important is how these rules affect the way you think, and allow you to organize your thoughts in ways that refine them and make them all the more powerful.
Once this begins to occur, it even starts to shape the way you form thoughts to begin with. Nowadays, there are many choices that come second nature to me in my music, that I would never have thought to make beforehand. Choices like abrupt time signature changes, key changes, and a lot of the time using chords that barely exist in the key I'm playing in.
Its funny to me that these things are kind of a lack of constraints. They are in essence freedom from some rules and patterns in music. Yet, it would have never seemed natural for me to make these choices, unless I began learning theory as I had.
Counterintuitively, it seems the more rules you immerse yourself in, the less you are limited by them.
A short song made in FL Studio 21 using just a piano, flute, and some strings !!
happy song
this song was a commission for a project !!!
feel free to email me if you'd like to commission a custom song yourself :)
_____
spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/7xUEVAixJOG51xLGQvRCLH?si=TOglGrGmTwumfATfysq4Wg
contact: azali00013@gmail.com
_____
4-7-2024 - My Thoughts on Music Theory
The more I learn about music theory, the less I'm sure it really matters.
When I first started making music, I had a pretty warped view of what theory was. I saw it as a hassle to learn, and something that would force your ideas into a tiny box, governed by sets of rules.
Originally, I hated this. I felt it really constrained creativity, and influenced beginner artists to postpone the cultivation of their own unique style, in substitute for the simple patterns and rules offered by beginner music theory.
To be honest, I still feel this way when it comes to some of the simpler things.
However, since the time I started making music and the moment of progress and knowledge I exist at now, I realize my views were pretty shortsighted in retrospect.
A little while ago, maybe around 4 months in the past by now, I decided I would start trying to learn a lot more theory! Mostly, I focused on aspects of harmony, such as extensions, modal interchange, understanding the circle of fifths, tools for chord writing, and many others.
Even now, I don't fully understand many of these concepts, but through learning them and seeing their effect on the music I compose, my views have really changed.
I believe that music theory in essence, is how we try to logically organize and convey the patterns we see in music. It isn't like what makes music sound good, or what makes music music haha
In the same sense that language is how we try to logically organize and convey the patterns we see in our thoughts.
Its more than possible to have thoughts regardless of being able to put them into words, but it is these words that give us not only a way to communicate our thoughts to others, but the ability to see the world through their lens.
By learning more words, we slowly build a framework to understand the world around us and to even better understand more complex words through them.
I often wonder what my thoughts would be like if I had no language or medium to channel them through. I would still have thoughts, that much is certain. But how complex might they be?
I now understand that music theory is no different.
By understanding concepts in music theory, we slowly build a framework to understand both music and more complex topics in music theory themselves.
Saying the rules of simpler music theory limit creative expression is equal to a child arguing that learning the basic rules of language would limit the vast complexity of their inner thoughts. They're not wrong, however they may not see that learning these rules is just the beginning. What's more important is how these rules affect the way you think, and allow you to organize your thoughts in ways that refine them and make them all the more powerful.
Once this begins to occur, it even starts to shape the way you form thoughts to begin with. Nowadays, there are many choices that come second nature to me in my music, that I would never have thought to make beforehand. Choices like abrupt time signature changes, key changes, and a lot of the time using chords that barely exist in the key I'm playing in.
Its funny to me that these things are kind of a lack of constraints. They are in essence freedom from some rules and patterns in music. Yet, it would have never seemed natural for me to make these choices, unless I began learning theory as I had.
Counterintuitively, it seems the more rules you immerse yourself in, the less you are limited by them.
