JackLuis
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I was wondering about song (chord) structures as in writing songs. In my ~14 months of fooling with Ukes, Ive learned I-IV-V7 is the 'standard" chord progression, but three chords is not enough to make more than a simple song. Although Dylan and Willy do seem to get along with 3-4 chords but Paul Simon seems to use many chords.
Blues (12 bar) structures are built on I-IV-V but still that gets redundant and throwing in a VI minor doesn't always 'fit'.
Then there is the sequence. It seems to me that a V7 should always be followed by a root (I) because if you go V7-IV it doesn't seem right musically. Does music theory suggest certain progressions/sequences 'fit' better?
Then there are the lyrics. Songs seem to be more like poems, with meter and recurrent lines and forms. The lyrics seem to establish a rhythm , each line needs to have the same number of syllables, or you have to do like Willy and fake it sometimes.
I spent most of my life in tech work and there I found 'magic numbers', (actually formulas to calculate things,) were the root of most things. It seems to me that there should be relationships to make music analogous to the music of the spheres?
I haven't really learn the 'names' for I-IV-V, I think it's something like Root-SubDominate-Dominate? Would study of the names rather than the numbers help clear my ignorance?
Hmm?
Blues (12 bar) structures are built on I-IV-V but still that gets redundant and throwing in a VI minor doesn't always 'fit'.
Then there is the sequence. It seems to me that a V7 should always be followed by a root (I) because if you go V7-IV it doesn't seem right musically. Does music theory suggest certain progressions/sequences 'fit' better?
Then there are the lyrics. Songs seem to be more like poems, with meter and recurrent lines and forms. The lyrics seem to establish a rhythm , each line needs to have the same number of syllables, or you have to do like Willy and fake it sometimes.
I spent most of my life in tech work and there I found 'magic numbers', (actually formulas to calculate things,) were the root of most things. It seems to me that there should be relationships to make music analogous to the music of the spheres?
I haven't really learn the 'names' for I-IV-V, I think it's something like Root-SubDominate-Dominate? Would study of the names rather than the numbers help clear my ignorance?
Hmm?
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