snip ... Your base core of music knowledge matters too. snip ... Knowing the structure of scales and the basic "rules" of chord progression helps a lot.
For someone brand new to music at a level where they spend a lot of energy looking to transpose to the key of L it will be more of a challenge than to someone who knows even a little bit of theory.
It can be done, but it will be more difficult as that user gains knowledge and experience. The newest of newbies would benefit greatly from having a "circle of 5th" printed out to see the relationship between chords.
Only if they understand what they are looking at Eddie. I'm not sure I clearly understand the circle of fifths or circle of fourths very well. I never heard of them until I was exposed to them
in this forum! There have been many times my knowledge of music theory have prevented me from clearly formulating a question or understanding a response.
Eddie made an astute observation which frequently is overlooked in this forum; not every user reads music, understands scales and chord progressions. I believe we (forum members) vastly underestimate the number of new users that want to use Band-in-a-Box as their first, musical instrument; in other words to learn about music.
A niece received an acoustic guitar as a Christmas gift. The first thing she did was go online and watch videos of people playing a guitar. She's learned to place the fingers like so and strum to make a pleasing sound. She has no idea that pleasing sound has a name or what the name is. That's how a lot of the next generation of aspiring musicians are starting out. Many schools do not have music classes. Many families have one parent or both parents work so money and transportation for music lessons are not available. In many ways the nurturing environment many of us enjoyed no longer exists.
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