@rapier232 said in On Line Theory:
@kehaulani said in On Line Theory:
Introducing Mr. Arban, Rapier,
(You can download copies for free. Just google.)I’ve owned an Arban for 35 years or more. Not the theory I’m looking for.
100% agree. Context is everything. I started in a brass band too. Learning musical theory via this route was like learning social skills at an all-male school. Take exercise 45 which follows a cycle of fourths. This could be used to explain a whole lot a musical theory, but as a 12 year old it was “just” an exercise in grinding excruciatingly through all 12 keys. @Kehaulani if you were under the tutelage of a half decent private teacher, then you’d hope that a discussion on theory would accompany this exercise. Yes, at the time I noticed the way an exercise like 45 moved back to where it started, and enjoyed the harmonic patterns, but was never told, or thought to ask “why is it so?”. Maybe Arban was the problem rather than the solution (meaning that there are books that do present exercises in a theoretical context).