"How to learn a musical instrument if you don't know music theory?"
"Do you have to learn music theory to learn musical instruments?"
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Everyone has his own rhetoric about this, and of course he can understand beginners' fear of music theory. He thinks that music theory is an inscrutable thing, a door that can't be kicked open. On the other hand, music theory is not so mysterious. Music theory runs through every link of your piano practice, and some details that you think are commonplace are actually supported by music theory. The greatest pleasure of learning music theory is that at a certain moment, you connect two seemingly completely unrelated details through music theory, and then you will feel the powerful and charming charm of this system. Knowledge of music theory is the key to music. With this key, you can open the door of music more quickly and enter the music hall.
First of all, you should be clear about the purpose of learning musical instruments. If you study musical instruments as your major and improve yourself by taking exams and participating in competitions, then your knowledge of music theory must be solid. But if you just regard it as a hobby, then a general understanding is enough. If you just want to learn a musical instrument and play with a piece of music just to pick up girls, then obviously, music theory may not mean anything to you.
Of course, in this indescribable world, there are always some special people. Some people will say that anyone who has never studied music theory is born to play beautiful music. In this case, it only shows that not everyone can be a genius. We can't deny the existence of genius, but after all, it is lower than the chance of winning the lottery. If you want to be the next genius, you can consider asking God. But if God ignores you, you'd better take every step down to earth.
Let's study music theory. Music theory, referred to as "music theory" for short, includes relatively simple basic theories-reading score, interval, chord, rhythm, beat and so on. There are relatively advanced contents such as harmony, polyphony, form, melody and orchestration. Mastering music theory has a very positive significance for composing, arranging, conducting and playing. What we usually call music theory generally refers to the basic part of music theory, that is, "basic music theory". There are countless works about the basic theory of music, among which "Music Basis" compiled by Li Zhongguang of the Central Conservatory of Music is quite popular in China.
0 1: Tone
This is a physical phenomenon. When an object vibrates, it produces sound waves, which pass through the air to the eardrum and are perceived as sound after being reflected by the brain. The sound that people can hear vibrates about 16-20000 times per second, while the sound used in music (excluding sound) is generally limited to 27-4 100 times per second. The size, strength, length and timbre of sound depend on the vibration of the object.
02: Hue-Color
Sensory characteristics of finger sounds. The vibration of the pronunciation body is composed of many harmonics, including pitch and overtones, and the timbre is determined by the number of overtones and their relative strength. People's ability to distinguish timbre is innate, and the timbre of music can be divided into vocal timbre and instrumental timbre. The timbre of the voice is divided into high, medium and low tones, male and female; The timbre of instrumental music is mainly divided into stringed instruments and wind instruments, and the timbre of various percussion instruments is different.
03: Resonance
Resonance refers to vibration. When a pronunciation body vibrates, it will cause other objects to vibrate, produce sound and resonate.
04: Basic Tone
When an object vibrates, the lowest frequency sound is pitch, and the rest is overtone. Pitch determines pitch.
05: Harmonic overtone
Except pitch is the lowest sound produced by the whole vibration of the pronunciation body, other parts such as 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4 also vibrate at the same time, which is overtone. The combination of overtones determines the specific timbre, which can make people feel the loudness of pitch obviously. Musical instruments and all sounds in nature have overtones.
06: Throw the ball
Pitch is expressed by the number of vibrations in one second. More frequency leads to pitch, less frequency leads to bass. At present, the international standard sound "A" is the sound that vibrates 440 times per second.
07: Name of the stadium
Phonetic name refers to the name that represents a fixed pitch in the western music system. These names are not uniform, and they are different in different countries. Widely used are: C D E F G A B.
08: roll call (syllable name)
Roll call refers to the names of the notes on the scale. General use 1do, 2re, 3mi, 4fa, 5sol, 6la, 7si. Major tonic 1do, minor tonic 6la.
09: Compass
The range between the lowest pitch and the highest pitch that a human voice or an instrument can reach is called the range. The range can be divided into general range and personal range, vocal range and instrumental range.
10: mode
A number of tones with different heights are organized around a certain central tone with a sense of stability according to a certain interval relationship and become an organic system, which is the mode.
1 1: tonality
Tonality refers to the mode category and tonic height. In music, the tonic is the core of melody and harmony, and other sounds are subordinate to it, ending in the tonic. This kind of music is tonal music.
12: volume
Volume, also known as loudness and sound intensity, refers to the subjective feeling of the human ear on the intensity of the sound heard, and its objective evaluation scale is the amplitude of the sound.
13, degree
A unit that divides the intervals between notes in a scale (each individual note in a musical system).
How to learn music theory
sound
Described in a straightforward and simple way, sound is everywhere, which can be divided into pleasant and dirty, and what is used in music is the sound that makes us feel happy. These pleasant sounds have the characteristics of "high and low intensity and color". And the music we are listening to now is composed of these characteristics of sound through reasonable arrangement.
This part is light or heavy. To put it mildly, whether you understand it or not will not have a direct impact on the later study. To put it seriously, this part summarizes all the music contents. Sometimes you may have a better understanding of this part after learning the latter knowledge.
-everything about interval, chord, rhythm and other music is condensed in a few sentences in this chapter.
space
To put it bluntly, an interval is the high and low distance between one sound and another. This part of the content is more important in music theory, and the familiarity with intervals directly affects the later learning of chord knowledge and solfeggio, so friends should learn this part by heart in the process of learning. (Just remember by force)
bowstring
Chords are based on intervals. When learning chord knowledge, we should pay great attention to methods and look for laws and commonness. If you rely on forced memory, you may have a brain cramp. (Remember a chord for each feature, and find out the rules for others to calculate. )
rhythm
From my personal experience, I pay great attention to rhythm. To borrow a famous saying: Music is the art of time. The embodiment of time in music is rhythm. Rhythm can determine your style. If you master the method of arranging rhythm, your music will be full of soul.
way
Learning this part of the model will help you to know your own direction in the process of appreciation and creation.
Simply put, mode is a rule of sound arrangement, and mastering this rule is very helpful for the creation and understanding of musical artistic conception.
At the same time, the characteristics of the current mode are also conducive to us to distinguish the musical characteristics of different regions and different times.
solfeggio
Solfeggio is second only to rhythm in my mind. Next is solfeggio, and what we want to emphasize is the hearing of the ear. Music is the art of hearing. Training a pair of keen ears is not as good as reading 10,000 notes in Le Shu. (exaggerated? No, take your time. )