Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
Jamming sparks ideas, which lead into songs, thats usually how a band writes music together. And if musicians are boring, why are you on a U2 forum? U2 are musicians, and if you think they don't know what key they're playing in, there's something going on inside your headMaybe when they first started out they were like uhhhhhhh, but now they definitely have some sense of theory. Even people like Hendrix, who was all soul and not about reading music, had some sense of theory. People don't just get by making a career on music not jamming, and not having any sense of theory, it wouldn't work. I barely have any, but I can at least tell you what key a song is in...
U2 are musicians on an album, but on tour they are entertainers. It is the same with other artists who go on the grandeur tours that they do. People like blues artists are not entertainers, they just sit down and fool around. Music theory is really only needed for classical music, it is extremely complex compared to rock/pop. Rock and pop songs are just thrown on a piece of paper in a matter of minutes that I can count on one hand. Classical pieces have extreme dynamic changes, key changes, time signature changes, etc. that take sometimes years to complete. I have been playing Viola in school for years, it's extremely different from writing a rock/pop song for me. I know music theory from that experience, but I rarely (if ever) use it outside of that. But, as always, to each their own.
Very cliche set up though. Oh well...
