Anyone else getting tired of the I--IV--V?

[banjosareunderrated]

It's only been, what, 350 years?

[jpgray]

1. Don't hold your breath waiting for Britney to do Pierrot Lunaire (nt)

[banjosareunderrated]

3. Lol!! Touche. n/t

[Zomby Woof]

2. Zappa said that was the most evil progression in music

Said it was the epitome of "bad white person music", LOL.

[DarienComp]

4. well...

there's a reason it's lasted this long. It works really well. I doubt it will ever really go away. sometimes I-IV-V is simply what's needed.

But I do agree that everyone should always make an effort to find interesting chord progressions. and I hate britney.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. I am. But it'll be around because that's what the unwashed masses,

who want to listen to "music", but don't want to pay attention to it, demand as the moniker of "good" music.

Personally, I like V7-vi6/4

:-)

[BlueJazz]

6. Yeah...We had a "concert" in a large park last Saturday with.....

...8 bands playing. Every Damn one of them ran the progression into the ground.. (and out the other side of the earth)
Of course, if that's all you can play, that's all you can play.

I especially love it when I see some hack on TV proclaiming to perform his/her "new song" and (you guessed it)...it's the same ol' shit.

[eyepaddle]

7. Yes and No

It's like the PowerPoint of Music, Er actually it predates PowerPoint..but...well, anyway, A lot of music does wind up sounding the same, but at the same time it still occasionally creeps into my own compositions. Kinda depends on the sound at that moment, a song I wrote on my now defunct 12 strng acoustic had a D-C-G progression in it just because those chords sounded SO good coming out of that guitar and that was a good way to fit them in.

Once I starrted getting into fingerstyle I notice myself doing a ton of shit that is just flat-out MAJOR SCALE. Even when I'm noodling on my fully crunched out electric I find myself drifting into a major direction. I suppose I just like the upbeat feel!

[chenGOD]

8. I dunno....

are you sick of the ii-V-VII?

[Ellen Forradalom]

9. It's a good starting point for a beginner on an instrument

I enjoy playing it on my 'ukulele. But that's a little different than passing it off as good, interesting music worth paying for.

[asthmaticeog]

10. Yeah, it's pretty beat.

It's still not entirely inappropriate - sometimes it does the job, what can you say? I'm not expecting the masses to get sick of it and embrace Harry Partch or anything. People who listen to more new music in a year than most people do in their lives are sick of it, casual music fans have no compelling reason to give a shit.

BTW, welcome to DU. You've chosen a fantastic username.

[banjosareunderrated]

13. thanks! n/t

[cestpaspossible]

11. No, but I wish the banjo player would quiet down

[banjosareunderrated]

12. did i just get served?

and do you really hear things when you read?

[eyepaddle]

14. LOL!

Welcome to DU

Banjos rule!

[banjosareunderrated]

15. thanks eyepaddle...

i'm half asleep in jitterbuggy, roadsidey, frog perfume, but your welcome has reminded me that I still live, and am still, a still life, no matter what the woodpeckers say. Muchisimas gracias.

bombs intro writes well.

[prof_science]

16. Well yeah!

But consider the alternatives! I mean, Wagner came along and was all "(tristan chord) - V7" (if that's how you care to look at it), and Schumann and Brahms were all "no way man, we ain't down with that!" But then Schumann went crazy and died in an asylum, and Brahms spent a few more decades sleeping with hookers and wishing to get with Schumann's widow, finally dying a lonely death. And Wagner wrote some more crap-- yes music-wise, but mostly in words railing against the Jews, and his music later became nazi proof that aryans were better and Jews needed to die...

So just be happy with the I-IV-V, maybe throw in a V7 if you're feeling daring. You'll live a long happy life. I mean, 350 years can't be wrong!