BUT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW MUSIC THEORY?
ABLETON COOKBOOK Shares SOME POIGNANT THOUGHTS ON THE SUBJECT.
I can tell you from experience that music theory, knowing the “right” way to put chords, melodies and rhythms together, has probably prevented me from coming up with as much music as it has enabled me to come up with. Whenever I do something or hear something that sounds “wrong,” I try to fit it into my little theoretical system. If it doesn’t fit, I disregard it, or I make up some exception to the rule.
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An amazing resource for electronic musicians, especially if your self taught.
Covers a massive range of topics like pitch, rhythm, scales, intervals, and harmonics, arranged as a collection of about 50 PDFs that offer diagrams, notes, and tips for everything music theory related.