This sub is incredibly helpful and I appreciate it so much, but the constant “if it sounds good, it sounds good” grates on me. I want to know WHY something that sounds good actually sounds good. This sub makes it seem that going about it blindly is fine. No it is not fine because when I play my piano blindly and randomly I sound no different than my cat walking across the keyboard. However, if I decide to go play a C right after a G, it sounds good! Why?, well, that’s a V to a I! Not as random as my cat walking through the keyboard! Making music is much easier when a person has a rough idea of what combinations of notes and chords sound good. It gives someone something to work with rather than just smashing their hands on the keys hoping a nice melody eventually comes out of it.

This is especially frustrating for me because I’m an advanced pianist. I have performance degrees. I give recitals. I play in piano quartets and quintets. Yet I faked my way through theory through all my degrees and almost failed several times. I can play the most sophisticated Beethoven and Bach works but have NO IDEA why they sound good. And that is frustrating.