So the other day I came up with this chord progression that I thought sounded pretty sweet. On my way home from jamming with the guys I polished it and made it sound nice, something truly my own.... The next day I played it to myself, trying to make some semblance of a tune for the song- and that's when tragedy struck, tragedy in the form of a realization... My beautiful new song, was in fact a collaboration by Santana and Everlast...
Alas, the plight of the artist is common to all mediums, we strive to create new in a place where there is no more room for novelty... No, not novelty, but refinement, permutations, new from the old... I know this is old stuff, but I'm working it out in my mind as I put it to words...
As a part of my coming to terms with this fact, I've decided that the best course is to take a progression I like, and come up with my own tune, my own words and that will be the end of it... Wow thats funny, not long ago I had the same realization about writing... OK, that one is really obvious, but when I start wrapping my brain around an idea it sometimes takes a while, but then again some ideas are much bigger than you could ever initially imagine.
So in conclusion, the moral of the story is that.... Oh dang! I always suck at these... The moral is, brush your teeth every night, and don't sweat creative nonsense like creative cliches or patterns. They are inescapable, and whats more, a couple of generations down the road, there won't be anything that isnt a cliche, itll all have been done so much that its meaning has dissapeared!
Hesus! Do you have any idea what that means?!? It means that the so called non-conformist, individualist movement is just a sham!!! An agent of all that is conformity!!! And theres no escape! Its already to late!!! Holy Crap thats a lot of exclamation points!!!!!
If you'll excuse me, no novelty and no individuality makes Jules something something....
;^)
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