My goal is partially based in spite but the purpose is to remedy my total and absolute lack of music theory. I want to teach myself using the Feynman Technique (which is essentially autodidactism through rubber duck debugging + attempting to teach something you do not yet know). I intend to write a

man page

of sorts for music theory. I want to include all of the fundamentals without any of the gatekeeping or academic elitism traditionally associated with music. Where possible, I will use math, graphs, and programs as in intermediary translation layers. The list of fundamentals is:

• Pitch


• Scales and Modes


• Consonance and Dissonance


• Rhythm


• Melody


• Chords


• Timbre




• Dynamics


• Articulation




• Texture


• Structure


• Expression


• Notation

This is for everyone who walked into a high school music class looking like a neurotic turbosperg, prompting the music teacher to entirely give up on you and refuse to teach anything beyond the abilities you already had before class.

We will rise again. The transfiguration is already under way.