I've never understood people who perceive hostility where there isn't any hostility at all!herodotus wrote:Tricky-Loops wrote:All this theory blah doesn't help anyone...
…If I want to make a beat, I usually stomp with my hands, clap with my feet, bang with my ears and shake my head...I have never understood the hostility to music theory that threads like this often seem to reveal.And I walk over to my drum kit, sit down and play. What about it?
We can walk and chew bubble gum at the same time (i.e. talk theory and talk practice), right?
I've recommended people so many books about music theory here at KVR that it should be easy for non-blind people to see that Tricky Loops has nothing against music theory...
But our kind of Western music notation system was made for classical music without drum beats, and there are better music notation systems for beat composing like the Tabla system that I've mentioned...