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electric circus
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electric circus
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03/18/2010 3:17 am
sounds like you might be over looking your friends natural talents.
you said he only learned the key of C and transposed everything from there. what you fail to realize is that hes still APPLYING music theory in his playing.
nope, you dont have to learn music theory to play guitar, but man it sure does help. i dont think that you will ever find anybody that will say
"yeah sure i know music theory, but it didnt help me any".
is it possible that you tried to learn it and maybe it didnt come natural, so you said that there is plenty of good players that dont know theory, so you gave up on it?
another 80s metal fan.