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Thats pretty funny. I'll have to get those chords down in an attempt to become awesome. On a less humorous note, if any of you listen to music on Imeem, check out Damien Rice's version of Prince's When Doves Cry towards the end he finishes playing Zeppelin's Baby I'm Gonna Leave You . Sounds pretty good.
This video neatly summarizes why I hate most pop music. No creativity whatsoever. Everybody uses the same damned four tri-tone chords. Every time. 1-5-6-4. 1-5-6-4. Occasionally they'll change the order. 1-6-4-5. They might even venture to go 6-4-1-5. Blech.
Quite a few good songs in there. I'll give them credit for testing their testosterone levels with A-ha's "Take On Me".
There seems to be a few of these "4 chords" videos on YouTube with more examples. Neat. But then I know diddly about music and don't know what I'm listening to other than something sounds very similar. The most famous "chord" I know is the legendary car company that merged with one of my favorite car makes of all time - Duesenberg.
Cool video. Reminds me of the Pachelbel rant: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JdxkVQy7QLM&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JdxkVQy7QLM&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
That’s a great video and I agree with what it’s trying to say, but just to play devil’s advocate…. All kinds of musical genres use similar chord progressions, not just pop music. There are hundreds of jazz standards that use the exact same chord progressions. Thousands of classical piano pieces that use the same I – IV – V – V7 – I chord progression. And anyone ever hear of the “12-bar blues” chord progression? The one that most blues tunes follow?
In church on Sunday, our violinist was rehearsing for the offertory and played a piece loosely based around Pachabel's Canon in D. The drummer and I both started giggling almost immediately because we were thinking of this video.
In jazz, they're known as contrafacts. A new melody is written to an existing chord progression. "Donna Lee" uses the same chord progression as "Back Home Again In Indiana". "Ornithology" is "How High the Moon". "Hot House" is "What is This Thing Called Love". A thousand tunes have been written on the chord changes to "I Got Rhythm". Writing new melodies was popular because players could record tunes with changes they liked to solo on without having to pay royalties. Even percussionists have to take music theory in college.
If I only had a nickel for every time I've been to church and the Worship leader started playing G - Cadd9, 3rd Fret Capo over and over again in between songs...
the worship leader at our church does Jason Mraz and Bob Marley (kinda) between songs- I bet you wish you had a nickel for every time that didn't happen in church.
That was great! But I feel like a total orchestra dork again laughing as hard as I did at the "the 2nd violins were getting beautiful melodies...that just shouldn't happen!" part.
Well, this video doesn't just range from Pop music though.....the songs these guys did go across decades of music from all different genres. Also, most of the songs they DID do on here are not done in the original intonation of the song. Most of the songs have been adjusted to fit the scale they are playing in. To me, this is just a cool little blurb the guys did just for kicks and giggles.
Awesome. Thanks for this. This works for TEJANO, MARIACHI, NORTEñA, and what ever sort of drunk-on-tequila Mexican songs you want to sing, too. "Lástima Que Seas Ajena" by Vicente Fernández "Clavado en un Bar" by Maná "Jefe De Jefes" by Los Tigres Del Norte "Querida" by Juan Gabriel "Con La Misma Piedra" by Manuela Torres "Suavemente" by Dulce and "TWIST DEL COLEGIO" by Parchís
