you're doing it all wrong guy

if you want to succeed

listen to this

what I do is just sit in my room and jam on my guitar and record as I play.. its like thinking out loud and its very helpful to revise a lick this way into something better and bigger imo.

This post was edited by Zakk_Wylde on Jul 7 2009 04:32am

scales are just certain sections of a key..
for example e aeolian = e minor.
lots of classical piano pieces use harmonic minor though, which sharps the 7th.
i know the theory it's just hard to relate to what they are doing since music was taught and learned differently back then.



i've tried thinking out loud but it's difficult.
i might resort to finding a classically trained piano teacher just to understand more about it.

If you want to compose something masterful and as musically complex as the original classics. It is absolutely THEORY, and theory alone...nothing else.

The reason why those composers are so "great" perse, is because they were the ones who created the musical laws by experimentation. If you want to create something new, then you need to pick up your instrument and play around. If you want to do what has already been done, then learn theory extremely well and study the original classical composers.