Music Theory

[Omeganitros]

Yeah, but books cost money.

[tristia]

and i dont think you can get the full experience from a book anyway... you can stare at a page til your blue in the face and not understand something.

[Anonymous]

Are you referring to reading a book as just words and nothing more? "Staring at a page" won't help, you'll have to put some effort into your reading...take what the author says and use either deductive or inductive reasoning...going from content to understanding and all in between, then touching on mystery once you understand it. It also requires you care enough to try to understand.

Books do cost money. Being interested and willing to invest time and money in something will bring up more options on how to learn about something...but yeah...if there's free information, go for it. I haven't studied the music theory yet. I just play the piano ^_^

[tristia]

when i mean staring at a book, i was kinda going along the lines that for many people... you can read and read and read a theory book over and over again and it will mean nothing to you, no matter how much you try to understand it. Ive found theory to be much more effective when taught person to person. A lot of times it just needs to be said a certian way for it to click, and a book doesn't offer any type of variation when it comes to explanations.

[Apollo_Strife]

Wow... I like how you all just strayed off topic.. You did a good job at it... But, the topic is about music theory, not books.

[BluE_MeaniE]

I believe that a topic is an ever-evolving entity.
It may start as one thing, but eventually it will be something else.

[tristia]

thats exactly it, and its not all that far off topic anyway... we werent just talking about books, we were talking about Music Theory Books... and how they contributed to the learning experience.