marumbra wrote:Do any of you wonderful people know how I should begin on grasping music theory, to eventually reach that of the godsend Jacob Collier
It is more to do with having the time, connections and £o££y to sustain a massive publicity campaign.
Learning the harmony is one of those issues where the results are directly proportional to the effort put in. But start with 'The Rudiments of Music' and if really obsessive move onto 'Harmony' by Walter Piston, and then listen to classical, jazz, and all of the classic pop songwriters, but listen analytically - see yo in about 2 years. By the way, many musical geniuses have a few things in common, coming from musical supportive families, they usually started learning music around the same time they started potty training