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"One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz." -Lou Reed
That reminds me of another yarn: Rock Music: 3 chords played to 1000 people Jazz Music: 1000 chords played to 3 people
"One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz." -Lou Reed
But with anything less than three chords you cannot generate sufficient lift to even get off the ground.
Am-E-G would have been ii-V-I, the everpresent faux-jazz progression (also common in actual jazz of a certain vintage).
Why didn't they put DOTs BETWEEN the frets?!? Arrrrrrgh!
Also, when you're pressing a fret, the pitch isn't coming from where you have your finger, but from the following fret which is making contact with the string. You can actually press the actual fret instead of the area between the fret and the one before it, and it should sound the same.
Now if the person that drew this knew that, I don't know.
Obviously the authors of the Arduino book were reprinting it because they'd seen it somewhere else, where, in turn, it had been copied because someone else had seen it in another source, etc.
But I thought it was extremely poetically true to put that illustration in the Arduino book. That made sense to me.
Now form a band!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That reminds me of another yarn: Rock Music: 3 chords played to 1000 people Jazz Music: 1000 chords played to 3 people
And then someone like Jacob Collier comes along and we don't know what to say anymore because language just does not apply to such a phenomenon.
i'm assuming what makes him special is his video approach where all the "samples" are shown as video clips of the musicians performing them. i'd probably describe the approach as "an actually talented version of pomplamoose"
not really my thing, but definitely interesting. thanks for the mini rabbithole
Side-note: don't start a band with those chords.
The real punk rock thing is: "here's a power chord, slide it around, NOW FORM A BAND"