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Re:The hardest notes to find on the guitar fretboard by camcil on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:47PM (#50463168)
I'm not really tracking where your confusion is. You can very much so do or "discover" something in practice that a theory describes without knowing that theory. I'd say it's even very common to "know" certain notes/chords/whatnot sound good with others and not learn "why" until later on, if ever.
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Re:The hardest notes to find on the guitar fretboard by javier123454321 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @07:57AM (#50466464)
My confusion is: why would you say that they don't know theory if they know the thing that the theory describes? If a person builds a radio by themselves, would you say that they don't know engineering because they didn't get a formal education on it? If a person figures out how to make a derivative, would you say they don't know mathematics because they didn't study it formally?
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Re:The hardest notes to find on the guitar fretboard by camcil on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:13AM (#50467471)
Well, yeah... absolutely. The theory describes why it works. I can know "this works" without knowing why it works.
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Re:The hardest notes to find on the guitar fretboard by javier123454321 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:29AM (#50468995)
Theory in my experience is much more descriptive than explanatory.
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