You ever get in those spaces where everything you hear on radio, TV, etc, sounds too similar.
Been waiting for the song(s) that doesn't grab a 'C' chord, and growl the vocal and squeal the lead solo or whack the 4/4 thing or whine about the suffering life or the unfaithful or sugarcoated stardom...actually it's not even the topics that seem stale. I've never really cared about lyrics. I guess it's just the sounds that seem stale.
I think I know what you mean! It's often all to easy to fall into the ABA style of writing with the requisite bridge and lead breaks. We write this way because it's usually the story we're trying to tell and the song form is more the vehicle. When approached from the other direction,meaning lyrics are secondary or non-existent, the form is more free. I remember in the 80's, in New York, there were some cats, mostly industrial or elctronica, that were experimenting with droning around the pitch axis. It's modal by nature but uses harmonics above and related to the fundamental rather than the half/whole step nature of modal playing. It was interesting and elements of that style even found their way into the playing of cats like Satriani, although he sanitized it a bit for his mostly pop/glam audience. He even discussed it a bit in the liner notes of surfin' with the alien! the Legendary Robert Fripp also had a unique approach with his "Frippatronics" which were more "fugue" like with it's classical elements. Free form jazz, although very dynamic, still stays within the twelve tone scale but is much freer in form. To go outside the diatonic, you might check out eastern music, which uses the altered 24 tone scale that is different from even region to region. The point is, your ears are looking for something, and if you look hard enough you might be pleased to find alternatives. If not, you might be the guy to invent something new!! Maybe you would give lyrics and structure equal weight but with greater lattitude! Do It! I'll be listening! Good Luck Joe Lamont Keys Doug DeJoe and The BloomLaters
You get the Weather Channel where you stay Steve? They have some nice pieces on it, makes me wish I could play as good as you guys in attempt to learn something like them.
That's prolly all ya need to do, just change the channel. Look into drugs, can't hurt.
I was actually thinking of a doing a Kenny Chesney and getting a deep dark tan with lots of muscles. Then the music wouldn't matter at all. I think that's the secret of the music business.
I guess with the saturation from the proliferation of the motivated musical classification in hunt of the commercialization of the individuation and the invalidation of the assimilation from the population, it really stands to reason that everything sounds like it does, right?
