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If so, might I ask your recommendation on how to learn music theory from scratch with no prior knowledge of music? I'd like to try my hand at making simple chip tunes or some simple electronic music, but everything I've tried to learn from seems to be like a review, as though they expect you to have musical knowledge from playing an instrument or taking a class even if the resource claims you don't need any of that. I want to learn the structure of music and to assemble songs in a DAW note by note---I can't and don't want to play a guitar or whatever.

I get that most people with an interest in music pick up stuff or take a class at a young age. I didn't have that opportunity. It took me ages to find a book on drawing that explained things like primitives, form, gesture, etc. instead of inviting you to "draw the owl" or look at pretty drawings while the book explains nothing. Music theory seems much worse in this regard, but just like drawing, sculpture, 3D modeling, or math, there must surely be building blocks that make everything and surely I can make progress once I've understood those.

Any advice? Thanks!