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Live Stream: Tuesday, September 10th at 5:00pm ET (check your local time zone)
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Hi guys! We are back with Live Lesson EP070! This month’s topic is: Do You Need Music Theory to Be a Good Ukulele Player?
In this session, Matt explores whether understanding music theory is necessary to become a great ukulele player. He will compare the instinctual method of playing by ear with the structured approach of mastering theory.
This month’s topic should stir up some great questions! So please post all you have below and I hope you join us for the live stream. 🙂
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Oh my, this is such a great topic… I don’t even know the answer though. 😅
I guess I am more of a “by ear” player, but I didn’t even realize fully what that was in the context of the music world until I started playing uke. Just that my childhood piano teacher didn’t want me to do it and therefore I wanted to do it more. 😂 So I feel like I honed that skill much more than reading music well or understanding theory.
To me it boils down to what you love to do with regard to music. I love creating by ear and I don’t love theory as much, but you can create both ways. I can see how having limited theory knowledge makes certain aspects of creating harder though, especially with things like rhythm and creating harmonies. Also, it can be much harder to communicate what you’ve created to other people without the written music. But for me I’ve just enjoyed organically learning things like chords and rhythm as I learn songs, along with the courses here on RC101 and on Matt’s Patreon. And *very slowly* learning how to write down songs with Matt’s help. 😅
I don’t know if you can be a great ukulele player without theory, but maybe you can be a pretty okay one. 😅😂
I hope other people chime in on this topic! Thank you for these great lessons! 😊
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