![]() ![]() ![]() There was a time when going to an opera was very much like going to the cinema, just like there was a time when jazz was the most popular form of music in the US. Trends in music result from historic and cultural phenomena, not only from music itself. This gets said a lot but I don't think it's true. That's why so much of Jazz music, for all its complexities and the skill required behind it, gets overlooked by the average listener and literally get's treated as background elevator music (sorry for jazz fans out there XD). So really, it's about the feeling you want your listener to have when listening to it, and I don't think making them go 'wow that's a fancy chord progression' should be one, cause then really you're just doing that for yourself. Like sure, people should have a deeper appreciation of music, but people are people, and they are always going to react intuitively to art. And I feel like once some people get onto a certain level it seems like that's all they focus on?Īnd more than anything, shouldn't music be about the 'feeling'? The intuition that comes to you? If a simple two-chord progression feels good for a song to you, then shouldn't it work just as well? You can pile so many chords and extensions and modulations to your song, but if you're just doing them for the sake of doing them they can become bloated and lack focus in the end. But shouldn't music be more than just this chord has to follow this chord and you need so many chords. Like of course music theory is absolutely necessary in order to go beyond the same rehashed pop music blandness, and there are so much underused musical colours out there that artists ought to discover. I've always been fascinated with music theory videos online and I feel like I'm discovering new concepts every week! But lately for some reason I've began to feel like there are people who seem to look at music in an almost 'mathematical' way, where it's all just numbers and formulas? ![]()
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