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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9629734">But how is it illuminating if it feels like it is dismissive of entire styles of play, and feels like it favors others. It is like saying "all the blues is twelve bars and pentatonic scales, it doesn't achieve the full richness and complexity of the structure and harmonic organization of baroque and classical". Blues musicians would object. They might also say "you aren't wrong, we use pentatonic scales and 12 bars but there is so much more going on". And many of them may not be able to articulate to the critique because lots of blues musicians are not versed in music theory (and many would even consider learning music theory to not be helpful because they have their own language for talking about the music)*. Now I am not saying you are saying that. I am not even trying to litigate what specific posters have said. But things like this often seem to come up in these discussions, even if they are just vague and kind of backhanded.*Note I am not saying you can't join music theory and the blues, two of my guitar teachers growing up were blues musicians who had great command of music theory</blockquote>