As Jeff said:
Originally Posted by: JeffS65
Is theory right or wrong? Not the way to look at it.
That little phrase couldn't have been said better. At first I viewed theory as: If you need (need being the key word) to use it, than your creating "artificial" music. If you dont need to use it and are creating amazing music, than you are creating "genuine" music. Which after reading your replies, that's not the way to be viewing it.
But non the less, whenever I hear a band using obscure time signatures that don't flow with a song and they are in a million different keys throughout the song for no other reason than to brag, it sounds very pompous... literally. Very skilled, sure, but pompous. I can hear their ego bursting through the speakers.
So perhaps that's specifically what gets under my skin in the end. When instead of music with emotion, I'm hearing something that sounds like some huge math problem.
Thanks guys once again, you opened my eyes up a little more.
