It is like in cooking when you learn adding MSG to everything makes it taste better (such as soups or stews) and that foods high in natural MSG (such as grilled steak or aged cheeses) are mainly so delicious because of their high MSG content.
Once you learn that nearly all foods taste better with more MSG, it is pretty simple to just start adding MSG to all your recipes (with obvious exceptions like dessert recipes where the "secret" is to just add tons of sugar) and suddenly all your foods taste better and you receive more cooking compliments from friends or family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_box
Here is a quote I saved from a gentleman who knows a lot of music theory:
a beginner might feel intuitively that certain music sounds like a specific era or has darker/brighter feel than other music but they lack the language to properly explain what exactly brings forth those emotions, and so the only advantage that a beginner might have is that lack of language can occasionally find something completely outside of any music tropes just by trial and error
Generally speaking (not with respect to music per se), the less you know about something that fascinates you -- the more fascinating it is. When I was younger, I was totally fascinated by trebuchets also called catapults:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catapult
I was fascinated how they could "launch" an extremely heavy projectile without any electricity or external force (such as gunpowder or an explosion) to power the massive task of launching a heavy enough projectile to tear down a fortress wall -- all with primitive technology! It turns out there is no "magic" and it's all just simple physics which you can learn by studying kinematics or taking physics 1 at university.
Creating music is a labor of love for me and I literally sometimes burst out in laughter when the notes I input on lined paper in MuseScore-3 actually make sense and sound coherent when I click the "play" button. To me -- nothing is more fascinating than how clicking some quarter notes on lined paper suddenly and magically "transform" into meaningful, pleasing music. I fear that if I learn theory, music will become less captivating and less mysterious -- which is why I'm asking today's question:
TL;DR: Question from a beginner -- does music lose some of its "magic" and/or "mysteriousness" if you learn the inner-workings of music? 🤔
Submitted September 22, 2022 at 02:54AM by SignificantMeal1428 https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/xkszt1/question_from_a_beginner_does_music_lose_some_of/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Wednesday, September 21, 2022