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Originally Posted by Hey
People say music thero is bad and blocks up your creativity...
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Mate, that's complete rubbish.
You might as well say that a good racing driver should know nothing about chassis design or how engines work because it might interfere with his ability to drive. It's simply not true.
If anything is bad for creativity it's being afraid to go into new places, and just bashing through the same stuff over and over. At that applies whether you're talking badly taught formal schooling or just sticking in a narrow little style box only playing power chords or whatever.
It's actually very useful to know some theory. Far from 'blocking creativity' it should actually shine fresh light and open new doors. Only a player who didn't have any real creativity in the first place would be afraid of what new knowledge might do to them. And there's plenty of people like that around, who mistake playing sloppy trash for being 'creative'. Ignore them.
For anybody who does have a spark of creativity, music theory is a set of useful tools not a bunch of restrictive rules. Go for it.
