Re:Why Do All Records Sound the Same?
by baddox on Monday January 12, 2015 @06:05PM
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The pitch and tempos are shifted, but more nefariously, the pieces of the songs which don't fit the VI-I-V progression are removed and replaced by pieces of other songs which do fit. It's deliberate and meticulous cherry-picking. The only thing all the songs have in common is that they're in 4/4 and the verses and choruses all start on the VI chord. I should make a table showing the actual chord progressions from each song and how the creator deliberately masked out the parts of each song which are different from the baseline the creator chose.
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(replying to self) I charted out the chord progressions of the six songs for comparison:
Please do, that would be an interesting companion piece to this.
That would require you to listen to and chart out these 6 mediocre songs. I wouldn't ask you to do that. You've got a music background, I take it?
And now I've done it:
http://baddox.github.io/six_country_songs.html
I listened to them last night, and started the chart. Should be ready tomorrow. A couple of the songs are actually decent. :)
Please, if you do it, let us know.
I took a stab at it: