There’s a lot of musicians and guitar players out there that don’t know music theory. Why? It’s because they’re lazy and they don’t wanna waste a lot of time learning and memorizing all these letters and numbers. They make a bunch of excuses not to learn music theory. A lot of musicians join bands anyways and not know any music theory at all. It’s wrong, in my opinion. If you wanna jam with other musicians, it’s important to master the art of music theory. That way you won’t get lost and you’ll know what you’re doing when playing in a band or whatever. Learning music theory is important ’cause when you learn it, you’ll be able to play just about anything and everything.

It’s not hard to memorize the notes on the guitar. It’s not hard to memorize all 12 keys of music. It’s not hard to memorize intervals, key signatures, the circle of fifths, it’s not hard to memorize scales and the scale degrees, it’s not hard to learn how chords shapes and know the notes in the chords… and everything else.

Music theory is easy really, even all the advanced stuff and I’m really getting the hang of learning it all. I’m not a wizard at music theory just yet but just about there.

Music theory is fun and I love it. Where can you learn music theory? Well, you don’t need to spend thousands of dollars on some course at college or online at all when all you need is a book that will cost $20 and there are all kinds of Music Theory learning apps in the Apple App store that will help you too.

For music theory apps from the App Store, I would recommend “Musicopoulos” for learning and the “Tenuto” app for quizzing you. I play with both of those apps all the time and I learn a lot of from it.

If you want to be a great lead guitarist, it’s important to learn theory so you can know what scales to play over chord progressions and sound good. Know the road maps of the guitar and you’ll sound good, always. You’ll no longer struggle when jamming with other people or writing your own songs.

Knowing music theory will help you become an even better songwriter as well and it has helped me become a better songwriter as you can tell. Theory will help you in many different ways.

When I first started out playing guitar, I refused to learn music theory at first ’cause I used to think it was pretty difficult on me but after all these years, I finally decided that I should really learn it if I want to play guitar a little more “professionally”.

I just wanna become a real “musician” and working my way up there.

Kev