On 07/26/2012 10:50 AM, Louigi Verona wrote:
I found this passage interesting:
/What has changed is how the chords are spliced into melodies. In the
1950s many of the less common chords would chime close to one another in
the melodic progression. More recently, they have tended to be separated
by the more pedestrian chords, leading to a loss of some of the more
unusual transitions. Timbre, lent by instrument types and recording
techniques, similarly shows signs of narrowing, after peaking in the
mid-60s, a phenomenon Dr SerrĂ attributes to experimentation with
electric-guitar sounds by Jimi Hendrix and the like./
I believe that pop music today is very much influenced by guitar music
and guitar thinking.
I believe that pop music today (and yesterday and earlier than that) is
most often influenced by the desperate need to sound like other pop music.
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