The Top Five Reasons You Should Learn Music Theory

Guitarists have a lot of reasons to avoid learning music theory. They don’t like musical rules, they’re afraid to lose the “magic” of how they hear music, they don’t see the value of it when all they play is rock guitar… and on and on.

But as David Walliman explains in this video, there are numerous benefits to knowing music theory.

To help players understand its value, he’s put together what he calls the top five reasons guitarists should learn music theory. As he points out, music theory can help you improvise over any chord progression, overcome writer’s block, harmonize, and much more—including make more money by scoring higher-paying gigs.

As David points out, “You can be an awesome musician and feel really fulfilled even if you don’t know music theory. That is completely okay. As a matter of fact, a lot of my favorite musicians don’t have a clue what they’re playing, and that’s really fine. I still really love those players.

“But I just suggest that you give music theory a chance.”

Watch the entire video for all of David’s points and his thinking behind them. There’s a lot of good stuff in here.

As always, we encourage you to visit David’s YouTube channel for more of his videos.

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