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208 | Rick Beato on the Theory of Popular Music
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Are You a Believer That People Can Appreciate Music Perfectly Well Without Knowing Any Theory?
I don't ever think about the theory of a song that I like never even occurs to me. Elton John uses a lot of chord inversions? Of course he does, because he's he is doing them on purpose. They might not know the names for them, but they know how things are put together. That's the intuition part. But also the progressions are very sophisticated, John, too. He goes to all these different places using his intuition. But he has to know what the chords are to come up with them Too.
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