There's being informative, helpful and taking pride in the information you post and then there's flagellating yourself on the floor with the theory you profess to so abundantly possess... I have a fair indication which applies to you and in case you're in any doubt it is not the first one...
I'm certainly not flagellating myself at the moment! That'd be rather painful.
The second comment exposes that elitist sense of musical privilege that has now become the inarguable characteristic of your posts on the forum.
You see, again you equate knowledge of music theory with "privilege" and "elitism". Knowledge of theory isn't privileged or elitist - anyone can learn it if they're willing and able. I started learning theory when I was a child, as I've mentioned before, and it's hard-wired into my musical brain to some extent. I really
do hear chords as dominant or submediant, it's not something I've imposed on my musical perception. I'm sorry if that comes across as snobbish but I'm simply incapable of hearing music any other way.
In between digesting the volumes of theory that you so evidently consume in your every spare moment...
No I don't. Generally I don't need to. I'm trying to learn something about jazz chords at the moment because I'd like to write more in a jazz idiom. That's all.
perhaps you should pause and reflect on the tone of your communication and your attitude towards others. Just because you know a little about theory - yes I said a little and that no doubt stings someone with a sense of hubris as rampant as your own - doesn't make you 'right' when it comes to songwriting
I never said it did. I've only ever said that theory
informs the creative process. Of course you can write music without a knowledge of theory, just as you can write literature without a knowledge of grammar. But I've never heard anyone claim that knowing grammar makes you a worse author, or inhibits the literary instinct, or that writers who know grammar are in some way "elitist". Why take this attitude to music theory?
and it certainly doesn't make you better than those who produce or write in front of a computer....
Not better - just different. I've spent several hours in front of a computer this morning just dealing with all the points in this thread. I wasn't planning to. I'm already getting muscle strain and if I had to sit here to write music as well I'd be exhausted!
In fact I really ought to go out for a walk and get some exercise. Enough for now!