Keth

Tell me, how long will you do about spelling an A#7 chord in first inversion with that app?

I had it spelled out in my head within 0.2 seconds, not kidding.

__________________

AeolianWolf

okay, then. you can go ahead and use external resources -- the rest of us will be busy utilizing our own skill.

you bring up the analogy of using the calculator - would you advocate using division on a calculator to somebody unable to do division by themselves? you probably would.

by the way - if you really knew chord construction theory, you wouldn't be wasting any time. anyone here worth their salt can build any chord in a matter of seconds. the fact that you refer to it as a waste of time shows me that you do not know it to any satisfactory degree...

...and therefore, you do not own the information.

you're welcome to argue and debate with me as long as you like, but you can't conceal the fact that you're using resources like the ones you're touting to cover up for a marked lack of knowledge and skill. your argument is flawed from its basic logical premise -- i advise you to think it through a little more. as convenient as it is for you to make your points to try to draw attention away from the fact that your understanding is poor, there are still large holes in your argument that i think you should reconsider before debating with me (or pretty much anyone on this forum).



look at the counterpoint of bach. the symphonies of mozart. the fiery compositions of beethoven. the role of musical form plays a tremendous part in all of those masterworks (and, no, i do not consider a composition with the form of "intro verse chorus verse chorus bridge chorus" to be a masterwork of ANY kind in musical form).

outside of form, look at the process by which sound is made - an elementary understanding of acoustics will contain mathematics as complex as a high school trigonometry class.

not to mention the concept of a beat. it's so basic and so fundamental that i won't even discuss it.

math is everywhere in music, and there are a lot of people who would try to get around it and take shortcuts -- and they're the people who end up cut short.

TS, you can do one of two thing to solve your predicament. you can do as i and many others have suggested and learn to create arpeggios - this will allow you to be in complete command of your instrument, and you will be able to create what you need when you need it.

you can also rely on external resources to "save time", and cover up your own misunderstandings.

it all depends on which is more important to you: would you rather be good at what you do? or would you rather seem good at what you do?

__________________

| Facebook (personal) | Facebook (music) | SoundCloud | Instagram |

J-Dawg158

I fail to see how:

Brain → fingers → computer → internet → eyes → brain → fingers

is in anyway more efficient than

Brain → fingers

Sure, when learning how to construct chords it would be, but you should eventually wean yourself off of it rather than relying on it. It's one thing to use tools to learn and benefit from, but it's another thing entirely to depend on it as a crutch.

__________________

Sleepy__Head

If your cellphone dies that's an inconvenience.
If your brain dies all the apps in the world won't make any difference.

__________________

AlanHB

Yes the brain is faster than Google.

More to the point if you can construct for example major arpeggios, you can do this for every major chord, rather than googling multiple times for different chords and voicings.

__________________
And no, Guitar Hero will not help. Even on expert. Really.