steve.h said:
I find this depressingly true: most top-10 songs have one of 3 or 4 chord structures.
That's why I vowed that I wouldn't write that crap... very often. I've written exactly one song, I believe, that is a 1564. That's what I call then: 1645s. Or in the relative minor, they're 6415s. Either way. And there's another common variant which is a 1645.
So I wrote exactly one... more to be a smart@$$ than anything else. The lyrics in the bridge are:
So open up a chorus,
sing it loud and clear.
Sing as if you just don't care if anybody hears,
then play a little louder...
'til the neighbors hold their ears....
Of course, the bridge chords are not 1564 chords.... In the key of G:
Amin7 Bmin7
F C (C/B)
Amin7 Bmin7 CMaj7 Bmin
Amin7 Bmin7
CMaj Dsus4
Then to a C major for the chorus, which is C G D Emin, C G D G, C G D Emin, F C/E Dsus4 D, C G/B Amin7 G. You get the idea.
*sigh* I definitely had too much free time back then. Oh, to have that much free time again.