they don't use chords anymore?

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with the advance technology we now have electronic music with so distinct sounds of percussion they are so clear that we have to throw away our precious arranging technics in order not to get in their ways?
i don't hear chords in nowaday music, just lot of percussion with here and there stabs of soundclip
Am i the only one?
 
Forget chords; I don't here music anymore in the most part.
 
trudat!

Yeah, it's disturbing to listen to a lot of mainstream music, just because there's so much bull and, as you said, there's not a lot of music.
 
What the fuck are you talking about?. "They don't use chords anymore?". Any layering of sound produces a chord. Not to mention the chords that exist in the harmonic overtones of a single note.
 
lol hixmix


"that we have to throw away our precious arranging technics in order not to get in their ways"

No, just don't listen to that shit. Write your own and arrange it however you like.
 
They just don't make chords the way they used too. That's for sure!

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Its rhythm over melody...part of the urban rap infulence in pop music,my guess.


Don
 
It comes down to originality. It's all been done before, so now they have all these synths that layer to disguise that fact.

They don't fool me.
 
Just remember, the middle aged parents used to call Elvis Presley a "punk" and said that his music was just noise. Times change, music evolves, who wants to be stuck in a rut?
 
Almost everything that I have heard on the radio has had an implied harmony. Just listen to the bass line. It's there. Sometimes the chords aren't fleshed out as much they are there.

Even in four-voice part writing (ala music theory class), I was taught that the bass-soprano interaction is most important and that the alto and tenor lines were just to add interest and body. A lot of the music now is just bass and soprano (figuratively and literally), but that is more than enough to define a harmonic structure.
 
Well my daddy sang bass and my mama sang alto. I guess that's why i'm all messed up. No, seriously, my parents were really into music when i was growing up. They sang in our church choir, and my dad was in a gospel band. I can still recall his beautiful bass voice and i used to love to go to their practices and hear the harmony they so enjoyed making with their voices. My mom can play piano, guitar, and she has an ancient autoharp. Gosh, you sure don't see those things anymore. If i can remember correctly you made the chords by pushing certain wooden slats down against the strings. It always made me think of a piano/guitar combo for some reason. hmmm, i wonder what ever happened to that thing. :)
 
I use a cord to plug my drum machine into my computer. Does that count?
 
Royston, our parents were right. Elvis was a punk, and he did only make noise. Noise that other people wrote for him.
 
Yep zoetrope it does count. Music is music no matter how you chord/cord it so long as it makes you happy.
 
Not only is there a lack of harmony, but all the new mainstream shit sounds like "plastic" "fake" there seems to be less dynamics...in that way i mean, everything sounds as if totally wired with sliver plated copper it seems..not fresh, unnatural, synthetic, non- phat virtual shit.

but, hey if thats what people want these days, then people are sure gettin it!

phew
peace
 
they shoot musicians, don't they

Hey folks, lighten up, I don't know what you guys have been listening to but all the music I hear lately has plenty of them there chords and a whole lot more. Great intricate rhythms, moody bass, all kinds of cool sounds and great tunes. Check out some Beck, Air, Radiohead, Tortoise, Sigur Ros, Don Caballero, Calexico, Titan, Kid Loco, etc., etc.

Stop whining, turn on the tunes, and jam!
 
On the optimistic side, yea i guess there are alot of bands doin new things with with harmony and stuff. Mabye most of the sparsness of the top 40 stuff is just a phase.
 
You're right in your perception that some of the stuff on the radio is kind of thin harmonically. Remember that it's aimed at 13 yearolds and their taste in music tends toward the simple.
They used to call it "bublegum music" The market is still there
and that stuff is purely an "entertainment product" There are some really interesting writers out there but sometimes you gotta change the station to hear it. There are some cool "alternative"stations too. They wouldn't play that crap for a million bucks, well maybe for a million, since they are often supported by listener donations but you know what I mean.Even in the classical or "serious music"field there is a trend toward what is called "minimalist" music. Oh well, just wait till I become famous , then you'll hear some REAL harmony,manLOL
writeon...chazba
 
Unfortunately, I guess, we won't be hearing much new and interesting music from most of you old-at-hearts.

" Nnn-geeezzz gosh darnnnnn. Nnn-they don't nnn-write music like they nnn-used tuuuuuu...."


zeotrope, this is f*cking rich man! :D
I use a cord to plug my drum machine into my computer. Does that count?
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Seriously though, at least as far as electronica goes, I thinks its primarily modal rather than tonally based music. And yes, rhythmic considerations almost always take precedence over harmonic. It could be considered minimalist, but Minimalist is a sort of funny and loaded term in my opinion. It's the name the western classical music establishment gave to composers who, only after a mere thousand years or so, began to understand and embrace the long held traditions of African and Middle Eastern 'classical' music.

barefoot
 
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