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For someone who thinks that he is a philosopher of science with an interest in perception I have read surprisingly little and am woefully ignorant of much of both fields. However, as with all areas of study if you are taught the fundamentals by genuine experts you can go a long way with relatively little experience.Hence, I would recommend browsing through the Very Short Introductions series from Oxford and seeing what takes your fancy. I have the (hilariously titled!) handbooks of “Causation”, “Information”, “Reality”, “Sleep”, “The Brain” and “Psychiatry”. I also survived most of my med school education and hospital working life using the Oxford Handbooks of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Specialties.In summary, all I can tell you is that what I learned from music seems to hold true for most pursuits: learn basic theory, scales, arpeggios and the “technical devils” of your instrument (for the trumpet that involves agility with the third valve and triggers). If you do simple things really well you will find the complex stuff just sort of chunks together (ps that's a key theory in cognitive psychology :).

It is necessary to study at least a handbook for beginners or any online music theory course. With Quora help (for example What are the best books to study musical theory by myself? )one can find according information and make own choice). Further it is possible to complete the theory knowledge gradually by solving of concrete problems.The matter is that music theory is changing with progress of music instruments and physiology (it seems to me that music theory is way behind especially by using of last one).In due time appearance of keyboard instruments and guitar which were valid to play chords brought to their adoption in music theory consequently to methods of counterpoint,thorough bass and now dominant method of chord progressions which is main part of contemporary music theory. Now computer technology permits realize any structure of musical note and there isn'treasons to believe that actual harmonic structure is the best one.In opposite, if directly determine frequency partials with their characteristics as energy contour, pitch, duration then their number must be much lesser than total one by common chords.It follows from compression methods which exclude clear majority of partials compression process.For example below is presented diagram ofpartials in the initial measures of Beethoven's Scottish drinking song by its implementation in the new way.drink-neww-2.pngIt is very important that the need in special musical scales disappears and any common frequency scale may be used and implementation of micro tonal music won't be difficult.Besides many notions of the present music theory would be need only for understanding of the old music,for example diatonic, tonality, key, accidental, enharmonic, inharmonic, mode, minor, major,Pythagorean comma,chord.

It’s one of the easiest instruments for a beginner. Anyone with a hint of musicality can understand how a well tuned kalimba works and discover how to play a few simple melodies in minutes, without any handbook, teacher or YouTube tutorial.Playing it well… well, that takes a bit longer, but don’t worry, I am not talking about decades. Here’s a short presentation of the instrument:A little harder than a simple melody: “A Simple Song”, on a 5 octave instrument. According to a comment on that video, “This is the elevator music in heaven”…Well, that’s not something you can learn in minutes or hours. Or weeks. I can’t tell you how long it will take you (or me) to play at this level, which is good, but still not at the highest limit of the instrument’s possibilities…