Tell me about your learning experience after learning music theory.

Forget the importance of music theory.

Before you learn music theory, please make sure that you can sing the correct scales (up and down) and basic beats (four or four beats, eight or six beats and so on). ).

If you work hard for a while, but you can't do the above two points, then your talent is not here, or you have hope to be trained as a good listener.

It is not very systematic for everyone to learn music theory in their spare time, so there is no need to be systematic. Because there is more research, it will naturally merge. If you want to learn music theory, you need a reference book. A book about music theory written by a man named Li Zhongguang is very suitable for amateur study. You might as well buy one and have a look.

The first lesson for a guitarist to learn music theory should be to tune the strings. The method of tuning strings is very common in guitar lessons, but this basic skill may not be mastered by everyone.

Let me talk about my own learning process and experience of music theory for reference only.

I learned music theory from reading music scores and solfeggio. I believe many people started from this. My practice is to find a song book or a folk guitar course and sing all the songs I can sing by name. At the beginning, you can walk sentence by sentence, sing the lyrics first, and then turn it over to sing the song. The purpose of this exercise: 1. To establish the concept of interval relationship in your mind, that is, to gradually get familiar with the distance between 1 3, 3 6, 2 5 and so on; The second is to be familiar with the singing methods of various sound types and rhythms, such as adding points and syncopating.

After I call the roll to sing more than a dozen songs, I will look for songs that I can't sing at all in the songbook, sing the songs directly, and then fill in the lyrics, that is, solfeggio. You may not be able to sing a word for a long time at first, so take your time. But it takes courage and patience to sing the pitch and duration of each sound accurately.

If you can do the two points mentioned at the beginning of this post, solfeggio is also very easy. For example, if you see that the first note on the score is 1 and the second note is 5, but you can't sing the second note accurately after singing the first note of 1, then you can sing the scale of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to find 5, and then sing the two notes 1, 5. Other intervals are practiced in this way, and the common intervals are limited, so it won't be long before I can solfeggio the general music score. But the practice of turning songs into titles is often done, and it is quite interesting to sing.

At the same time, everyone should read the contents of the book on music theory (Li Zhongguang's book is very thin and easy to read), and it is easy to do all kinds of exercises in the book.

Solfeggio has made a good start, and then my second step is to listen to songs and record music. When you hear an unheard-of song, you can write its main melody score while listening. This process is a bit long, and I didn't understand how I got through it. I only remember that there was a time when I was always humming the first two sentences of the song "You at the same table", trying to turn it into music, but I just couldn't feel which sounds were useful. Then one day, I sang a random soundtrack with 5 5 5 5 3 4 5 sounds connected. After singing, I suddenly felt that this is not the first sentence of "You at the same table"? After that, I can't wait to hum the following phrases, and then write down all the sounds in the music. I felt very cool at that time and had a unique sense of accomplishment. The next day, I showed the music score to a teacher who knew music theory. Except for some symbolic mistakes, the sound is correct. Being able to listen to and record music should be a big leap, because it is the basis of improvisation. In other words, only by listening to what the singer sings and judging what the sound is, can we decide which chords to accompany.

The third step is to learn chords with braces. After I could hear what the main spin was, I began to try to listen to what sounds were played in the guitar part of the accompaniment, and write them down or play them on the guitar, that is, the strap. At first, of course, I was looking for simple tunes, such as "Bai Hualin" and "You at the same table", mainly because the accompaniment instrument was simple and the guitar sound was obvious. In the last chapter of Folk Guitar Course co-authored by Wang Ying and Mahong, the method of selecting ribbons is introduced. In the final analysis, it is to listen to songs and record music (but here is to record chords). If you can't hear me, it's no use saying anything.

At present, there are several articles about chords that inspire me the most, that is, Wang Ying and Ma Hong's explanations about the classification, naming, analysis, application, memory and derivation of chords in the Great Lesson Plan of Folk Guitar and the New Curriculum of Folk Guitar. I think this is the most scientific and easy-to-understand introduction to chords in all guitar tutorials. In fact, in Wang and Ma's books, the arrangement has always been original, and the use of chords will not fall into the stereotype. I suggest you read more of their books, especially Liu Chuan's tutorials. I remember a long time ago in a tutorial, Liu Chuan actually made the moon dream of the Tang Dynasty into a triplet rhythm (later changed), which really made people laugh.

Since I knew the meaning of chords, I learned that the accompaniment in songs is composed of chords, so I began to learn chords with pickup tapes, mainly listening to the constituent sounds of various chords, feeling and remembering their colors, seeing how chords are used in original music, whether they can be replaced by other chords, and so on. Chords are rich and colorful, seven chords, nine chords, eleven chords, various proxy chords, and chords with mixed sounds. Combined with different rhythms and playing skills, it is really changeable, and the more you play, the more cool you are.

The fourth step, music, arrangement, fingering. At present, many songs are equipped with electro-acoustic bands, which are basically four pieces: drums, guitars, bass and keyboards. There are many sound effects, small beats, strings, harmony and so on. Writing is really a great test of your ears and musical literacy. For those of us who like speaker piano, we always want to express these elements with a guitar as much as possible, so besides picking the sound, the next step is guitar arrangement. There are chord direction, chord mode, rhythm type, the application of chord transmission sound, timbre, strength, speed arrangement, prelude, interlude, finale design, beat, muffled voice, plucking and other techniques. Generally speaking, you feel that you are both a conductor and a performer (singer), and it is really challenging to wear several hats. The realization of these processes needs the support of music theory, which is basically the old saying "combining theory with practice". I have studied music theory for a long time, but I still need to use it. You can make up something yourself and come back to see the theory and learn more.

I'm just getting started at this stage. I think the only way to break through is to listen more, do more and use more brains. Listening is really important, any music will inspire you to play, and widening your ears will always make you more creative; Personal arrangement will be greatly improved, and there are many details of guitar playing that can only be realized if you have experienced it yourself.