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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
Paul MacCartney famously can't read music, or certainly couldn't while he was in The Beatles. Duh? What are you trying to say there?
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my harmony professor teaches a course on the beatles. he teaches howe they really were recolutionaries in harmony, since they started peices from the dominant andhad extremely strannge chord progressions. im not sure excactly what, my friend took the course and told me a bit about it. but even if he couldnt read music, he could still facilitate music theory and theoretical methods. even blues men from the deep south write all of their songs in a I IV V I chord progression, and thats music theory.
and i know a bit. i study musicology at UNI. today i learned counterpoint fifth species.
and i can tell you a shitload about the renassaince baroque period (got a 97 in a shit hard history of music test last week).
but i dont usually use any music theory when writing, at least not purposely, i just find learning the stuff interesting.