As somebody learning music theory actively, I respect the content he puts out but I don’t really respect his presentational format. His doodles are distracting and often only tangentially related to whatever he’s talking about.

Interesting. For me they help follow what he's saying: after a few minutes I can peek at the doodles and I remember what points he touched.

I never thought some people might dislike that part, but now I see you and a sibling comment do.

I wonder if it's good for people like me (who don't know much about music theory) and bad for people in the field. If this is the case I believe it's a good choice: the audience of non experts is much bigger and thus the minority of viewers finding this annoying will outweight the problems of those who dislike it.

I completely agree.

So I just turn off the video and treat these presentations as podcasts. I find the audio content is informative and doesn't need the visual distraction at all.

Podcasted

I can't stand the visuals

It's also quite meandering, and for people unfamiliar with music theory, it's probably not helping much.

I know several better channels for getting the theory - including analyzing genres or songs, but most are focused on instruments + theory or composing + theory.

@coldtea, agree on the meandering, de-facto for youtube.

Share one or two alt music explainers, maybe in a new submission, though here will do.

Here are some I follow:

https://www.youtube.com/user/GracieTerzian

https://www.youtube.com/c/RyanLeach/videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agln4_z8D8I

https://www.youtube.com/c/AnneKathrinDernComposer

Thank you.

Without you knowing my skill or interest level you sent great links. Thank you. I don't follow much per se, more of a contiguous surfer, but do like Guy M's short, simply explained, music theory videos. You may appreciate his style and other videos.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH1Kp5ewZe_TP3CMB6LBw9Z...

A cool channel you should check out is Metal Music Theory[0]. He actually will play a lot of the riffs he analyzes himself, will show corresponding notation and tabs, and is fairly understandable. He is getting his PhD on rhythmic analysis of metal if I remember correctly.

[0]: https://youtube.com/channel/UCIrOOZeidxZjoDRFdLqabmA

This is my first encounter, and I have to say I have a hard time getting through it. The drawings are distracting and not adding much and his speaking pattern is pretty grating. His vocal-fry/drawl is just too much for my ears, and sounds affected.

The content seems good but the rest of the presentation is just not worth getting through.