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Anecdotal but I feels as if that goes against standard chord progression, keys, and almost all EDM. Blues has a fairly strict formula in which most songs follo
by tonyhb 10y ago
Anecdotal but I feels as if that goes against standard chord progression, keys, and almost all EDM.
Blues has a fairly strict formula in which most songs follow. Most songs are in 4/4, and most modern music sounds fairly similar yet people are really into it.
- cynicalkane 10y agoThere's far more to musical creativity than chord sequences and time signatures. Blues is made interesting by the musical ability of the performers.
- arthur_pryor 10y agoit's almost mystifying to me at this point that not everyone's on board with this idea. most of what i care about musically is captured poorly by the traditional notation of western classical music.
- yolesaber 10y agoOnly people who have never made music think in that way.
- meowface 10y agoMany electronic music producers (including myself) share a similar sentiment. There's a lot to a carefully produced song that can't be fully encompassed by sheet music.
- coldtea 10y agoWell, I have made music, and I think in that way. The mere score of a blue piece is just as good as useless for conveying the power of a particular blues performance for example.
- maroonblazer 10y agoThe notation is just a model, an imperfect one (as all models are). That's been the case since Bach, if not earlier.
- tdkl 10y ago.
- meowface 10y agoIt is, but that's not really contributing anything here, unless you're saying that diatonic scales and popular chord progressions are also shit.
- tzmudzin 10y agoAren't those patterns and structures just there to avoid the cognitive overload, while we're entertained by lesser variations? (BTW, I believe we're overly simplifying by speaking of music as a single entity. All of the elements you mentioned are a foundation in more popular music, but good luck finding them in more modern or experimental genres.) The cognitive effort to digest Schoenberg is different from that for a pop song. Still, you can progressively familiarize yourself with a genre, and relax on pieces that seemed hard and inaccessible earlier.
- thirdsun 10y ago> Still, you can progressively familiarize yourself with a genre, and relax on pieces that seemed hard and inaccessible earlier. Yes, as a passionate music collector and someone that can get lost in weird, obscure and very leftfield music, this is something I notice all the time. You start with something accessible only to find yourself enjoying obscure 70s synth funk recorded on tape in someone's bedroom months/years later. Or similar. It's why we recommend "Kind of blue" whenever someone wants to get into Jazz, which is difficult if you just randomly start...anywhere.
- zhemao 10y ago> Somewhere in between is novelty Most 12-bar blues use a similar chord progression but have different melodies. Even the same song performed by two different musicians will sound different enough to be perceived as "novel".