Do THIS If You Find Music Theory YouTube Videos CONFUSING
Do you have difficulty developing a perfect understanding of music theory by watching videos on the internet?
As we all know, the best way to learn about anything is to search the topic on YouTube, and then watch all of the videos with the most professional-looking thumbnails.
But for whatever reason, sometimes this method doesn’t seem to work. What gives?
The problem, obviously, is you.
If you can’t figure something out by watching an assortment of random videos on the internet made by people who may or may not be qualified, then you probably have dumb-dumb stupid head disease and there’s nothing you can do.
But what can people with dumb-dumb stupid head disease do if they want to learn something, like music theory, and YouTube videos don’t work?
Simple, watch the video linked below, and I’ll tell you what needs to be done...
... of course that's a YouTube video. So watch it if you can stand the irony of watching a YouTube video that explains what to do if you can't learn from watching YouTube videos :-)
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Video Transcription
Hello Internet, so nice to see you. I got a comment from a music theory beginner and I want you guys to listen to it. This was a mistake to click on. Not your fault, but I'm way more confused than I was before, LOL.
It was a mistake to click on, but it's not your mistake and it's not my mistake, so let me explain. It is absolutely impossible for anybody on YouTube or any social media to give you the exact, precise advice that you need at any point in your journey in learning music.
Because we simply cannot tailor the message to you. This is true for me, this is true for everybody else. The responsibility is not mine and it's not yours. My responsibility here is to put out videos that most people will find useful, but it's impossible to do that without a specific ordering.
In this specific case, what I did is to answer to that comment and gave this person a link to my playlist Music Theory from Zero, which is a beginner music theory playlist. If you're watching this video and you know you're a beginner, then go back to my YouTube channel page, homepage, check the playlist and search Music Theory from Zero.
Watch this whole playlist, it will make you a thousand times better and then you'll be ready to see all the other music theory videos I have. But if you randomly happen on my channel, you may happen on one of the beginner music theory videos or one of the advanced music theory videos.
It's not your fault, it's not my fault. It's the fault of social media, that's how they work, okay? Which takes me to my point today. You should know, study music theory only on social media. Because, one, it's impossible for anybody, no matter how well-intentioned, no matter how correct they are, to give you the correct video, okay?
You will not randomly fall on you not randomly click on the video you need because there are so many out there okay and again these assuming that all the people on social media who teach music are well intentioned and correct which is an assumption let's say i will not take lightly okay but let's say all of them are it's still impossible for you to get the right video if you're a beginner even i get an advanced video very often and then i'm gonna watch them and like i don't get anything.
Music theory must be useless it's so complex i don't understand anything and it would be correct for you in that moment that's too much if you are an advanced player you're gonna come to a number of intermediate beginner video okay and you're gonna be bored out of your mind because you're searching for specific things even if you know exactly what you want to learn you may not need the name of what you want to learn but even if you know what you want to learn and how it's called Now you are still left with finding the video that is explained at your level and the videos that are correct and they don't teach you mistakes.
It's much. I can do that. You can do that. Social media are great for you to know a little bit about what's around, for you to choose a teacher, for instance, to see if you like a teacher or another teacher.
Social media are great to get an idea on some specific topics. If you already have a deep knowledge of music theory and you should assume you don't, but if you already have a deep knowledge of music theory, then you can go around and see different examples of different people and learn from it.
How do you know if you have a deep knowledge of music theory? Easy. You can transcribe everything you hear and you can name everything you hear. That would be a pretty good reliable sign that you actually know what you're doing, but if you cannot do those things.
And again, it's not that naming thing, it's the goal. But if you can name it, you at least know what it is. So it's a sufficient condition, not necessary. Other people know music theory without knowing the names, but I'm trying to give you a very easy way to know if you have this deep knowledge or not.
If you don't know any of the names, likely you don't have this deep knowledge. You may, probably not. I'm not forbidding anybody to go around and watching everything you want. After all, I have a YouTube channel too and you are here watching me.
I mean, of course, I'm not sending you away, but I'm telling you that if you want to just be entertained, if you want to have a vague idea of what's going on, if you want to see what's possible, yeah, definitely watch YouTube, search around.
But if you want to learn in depth, if you want to be able to do those things on your instrument, if you want to know what's actually going on, these medium, the videos on social media are not the correct medium.
Pick a teacher called teacher, okay? I mean, it could be a teaching person, it could be somebody else on YouTube, okay? It doesn't matter. I mean, of course I'm recommending you guys work with me, duh, okay?
Because I know I'm gonna do a good job, okay? And I know I'm accountable to you, but you pick. It's your pick. Choose a teacher, call this teacher, ask these teachers for advice, do whatever these teachers tells you to do, you're gonna get better.
Do something else, and you may or may not get better. That's just the reality of things, okay? And again, to take away any suspicion that this is just a self -serving video, if you think this is a self -serving video, if you think I'm saying this only because I want you to pay me, then go somewhere else, okay?
No problem. Pick another teacher. Not a problem, but for yourself. If you want to improve, hire a teacher. Get that guide. Work with that guide. a teacher can guide you where YouTube videos cannot guide you, cannot possibly guide you.
Okay? It was a mistake on clicking on that video, maybe. You did not understand that video most likely, but if you watched the playlist I posted to you, now you start getting it. And if that video made you know me and then it made you more curious about music theory, then it wasn't a mistake.
But I do understand the frustration, believe me, and I'm saying to you, find a teacher and your frustration disappears. Okay? If you want my help, you can find everything about what I offer at musictheoryforguitar.com.
And this is Tommaso Zillio for musictheoryforguitar.com and until next time, enjoy!