Greg_L wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:01 am
I don't even know what a minor 6th is.
It's somewhere in-between the 5th and 7th.
Greg_L wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2017 1:45 pm
That's why none of this shit fucking matters unless you're some session musician being handed sheet music and you have to play it as it's written.
Yeah...you don't need to get totally hung up on theory nuances.
I had that stuff spoon fed to me for years when I was taking piano and guitar lessons...and it's nice to know all those things...but TBH, for most Pop/Rock/Country/Punk/Rap/Metal/...you can just go with basics and play what your ear tells you is good, without needing to know if it's a minor 6th or 7th...etc.
I still like to sit at the piano when I'm working out songs...and while I can play all the different chords, I sometimes have to stop and consider WTF it is I'm playing when it's an odd one...and I'll grab my chord/theory book and confirm it...etc...but I could just play it an not give a fuck, though I tend to write down at least the basic song structure of all my compositions...so with that, I like to at least know I'm writing down the right chords and time sigs and all that...but otherwise, I rarely get into it deep these days like I use to....and I need to refresh my memory when I try to.
Some guys spend a lot of time arguing about lead scales and all that shit...I just play. I mean, I know what scale I'm in, but like... am I crossing over from a Minor Pentatonic to a Major to Mixolydian to whatever...mmm, I tend not to care all that much.