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Originally Posted by lieasleep
plu learning sheet music is only REALLY helpful if you plan on picking up classical guitar at some point.
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or if you want to learn to play just about any other instrument out there besides a bass guitar.
personally i don't see the need to 'learn theory' aside from barre chords on a guitar. which is really just a way of learning how to move chord shapes up and down the neck.
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Originally Posted by Antonio
i've played with people who knew that kind of stuff as well as people who only knew how to play other people's songs, and the latter is alot more of a bitch to deal with. it's best, in my experience at least, to learn some theory, so that you could be on the same page with other musicians.
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is this really because they didn't know theory? how much experience did they have playing with other people before jamming with you? if all you've ever done is learn to play other people's songs odds are you've never jammed with much more than this month's guitar world magazine and your stereo (not that i spent the first 5 years of playing guitar doing exactly this hahaha)
it's far less about what you know and way more about how you use it.