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How to Analyze Music Without Music Theory
You can analyze your favorite music without needing to do any of the standard music, treble clef, note reading kind of notation and definitely without music theory. Sometimes there are things that we don't even really know how to analyze it the young. I was working in an interview with John Mayer a few days ago and he said something almost identical. Think about what that chord is and why they chose it and then think about how other ways you can make that chord. You just kind of notice and pay attention to the organizing of instruments, the layering. Yeah, all of this music theory is just a way to kind of turn things into workbooks to teach students but you don't know
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