the ricci adams site is really the best for learning theory. the way I have come to learning lsdj is by experimentation and a lot of joke songs
joke songs turn to alright songs
aright songs turn to songs you can be proud of

Visualising the notes and such on the fretboard has always helped me. I played brass for years in school and music made almost no sense to me until I could actually see the notes in relation to each other.

^ was going to email you about that

i could maybe make something like this to supplement my lsdj zine.

Is actually not far from the best way. Learning music and it's theoretics in a tracker is a really good way to understand for example the construction of a chord. Instead of having three fingers on some snares which makes it sound like a G you can actually see the notes on your screen forming a G.

I do agree that learning music on an instrument is a good basic but learning it on a computer is really not that bad.

Garbage in, garbage out.

if you asked a more specific question, you'd get more helpful replies!

Not arguing with you there

more than just major and minor scales. i know hoping into music is intimidating for few, just trying to help a lad out

Seriously? Notes about major and minor? Aeros is right, if he needed that he could just search Google. In fact, say screw it because anyone can make music without theory. Just use some sense. But he says he already knows some music theory like scales and basic chord progression so he wouldn't need your notes anyway.

whole whole half whole whole whole half. thatll give you a major scale. i have TONS of notes left from music theory, for lsdj, just use the manual, or eff with it for days straight. send me an email and ill send you the the notes mang

music theory will help you to understand the relationships between notes, chords, scales etc.

but in the end it won't really help you to write good music

Nanoloop's good for getting down ideas, but IME I've found it's hard to write an actual song out of it if you're not doing dance music or other more-loop-based genres.

But as for applying music theory to LSDJ, I'd say the best thing to do is to experiment. Just watch some tutorials to get used to the interface and everything, but once you've got a handle on the interface and most of the functions just play around with it and see what happens. Try all the commands, test out as many things as you can find and see what they do. It takes time, but once you get it it becomes really easy.

(btw chords or should I say arpeggios are made either with tables or the C command, it makes the channel flip through different notes really quickly so it sounds like they're playing together when it's really only one note at a time)

I've never understood what the fuck I was doing in nanoloop.

LSDJ was always easier for me.

Nanoloop is easier
and before anyone tells me that is just an opinion, which it is; ask yourself if you can honestly say that it isnt

for me, it is easier to transfer ideas from guitar and piano to NL, making it easier to apply theory... if that is still relevant in this thread