I’m really am studying music theory. Studying pretty hard. Trying to learn and memorize it all.

Stuff I learned so far are:

– All the notes all over the fretboard
– Knowing the notes in the major scale in all keys
– The Circle of Fifths/fourths
– Key Signatures
– Intervals
– Notes in chords
– A few different scales like Minor/Major Pentatonic, the Blues Minor Pentatonic scale

There’s still a lot more stuff I need to learn. I’m not a music theory wizard just yet but I’m getting there, though and that’s my goal. I want to learn as much of it as I can. I want to understand music and understand it well.

There are many reasons why I think it’s important to learn music theory.

1) You’ll become an even better musician
2) You’ll be able to improvise better and solo well
3) You’ll write songs a lot better and be more creative
4) When you jam with other musicians or when you’re talking with other musicians, you’ll be able to
understand what they’re talking about when they give you chord names, note names, scales and all this theory stuff.
5) Other musicians will take you more seriously if you know music theory. This is no joke. If you know your shit, other musicians will be proud of you.

When you want to become a part of the musicians community… it’s pretty important to know this stuff. Why would you want to become a musician and not know this stuff??? I mean when you talk to a musician about music, chances are he/she is gonna be telling you all kinds of chords with weird names and all kinds of notes and if you don’t understand any of that stuff… he/she will look at you like you’re some kind of hobbyist.

There are tons of books out there that teaches you theory and there are all kinds of apps that I can recommend you.

Theory isn’t that difficult to learn. Piece of cake. Even a 5 year old kid can learn this stuff. Music theory is fun to learn too. It may seem boring at first but once you get into it, you’ll like it more. Learning music theory is kind of like learning math in a way. I’m having fun studying this stuff. Still got way more to go.

Kev