This is true. The basics are required for ear training. But once you get past the basics (reading music, intervals, identifying chords), I don't thinking going

This is true. The basics are required for ear training. But once you get past the basics (reading music, intervals, identifying chords), I don't thinking going much past that is necessary. I think I'm incorrectly assuming people want to take it past the basics when they say they want to learn music theory.