Middle Eight. Chorus verse chorus chorus. My favorite. A fool if you do, a fool if you don’t.
Progressions that pay.
Listening to the radio today, one of those very rare occasions, in the car of course, waiting for Judy, I heard once again a common 1,4,5 progression. Money. Its money. Funny.
Got to thinking about how some progressions keep on keeping on, they get used over and over and over and pretty much are money, in the bank. So you wonder about originality. You hear the latest and the pride and joy in those creations that aren’t creations but renditions and think that originality all but doesn’t exist.
So arrangement seems to be what composing is, really. So Acid Pro creations are composing? No.
But as the title of this post indicates, conventions are familiar and usually quite enjoyable. As we carve these paths of familiarity are we creating them or finding them? Are some progressions just right and we discover them or are we all color blind?
The diatonic scale is like that. Pythagoras discovered it yes? Or did he invent it?
No matter. These are comfortable comforting sounds. The real challenge is doing them in a way that is original after all but keeps that happy recognition alive.
Don’t bore us, get to the chorus.
your posts are getting longer. looks like someone has been reading a little too much fit to print. and as i always say, you’re a better man for it.
FTP is the best, absolutely best source of information fresh from the quagmire of frightening fantasies liberally seasoned with inside jokes to myself.
What I really want to know is what you think of the post?
Do you understand that repetition is what our minds crave?
Pythagorian tuning is somewhat different than diatonic tuning. There’s lots of info on the web…
I recently finished a book called “This is Your Brain on Music”. It addresses both the craving of our minds for repetition and also how we need sounds which are more challenging. If pieces of the music are missing, our brains actually fill in the blanks. Fascinating stuff on music, mind, and memory…
And you are correct – tweaking the sounds makes it both comfortable and interesting at the same time. The room to be creative is expansive.
I like repetition.
I like repetition.
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