You are right, but the fact is when you put I, IV, V in pretty much any order you pretty much get something that works. Occasionally you throw another chord in the mix, but that's how pop-music has been built ever since .. well .. around 1600s or so. That's a thing: V is dominant and IV is sub-dominant and these are the chords of power (not to be confused with powerchords).Smartfusion wrote:if you take avicii for example he has some chords progression that are boring themself but layering sound and arrange correctly make huge difference
But it's not about whether or not V,IV,I or VI,V,I or whatever such simple thing is boring. Sure they are boring, nobody's questioning that. But while boring, they also create a strong, meaningful (in some abstract sense) progressions that are easy for the listener to understand.. because well, it just feels right (in a more scientific sense these are also built on intervals of simple ratios, so there are strong consonances, which is probably want makes it easy for the brain to deal with them).
Note that even with two or three chords, you can still vary how the individual notes are arranged (order, spacing, etc), which can add colorful flavor... so it's not nearly as limiting as it initially appears.
You can go more complex too, but it becomes somewhat harder for both the composer and the listener: you have to work out a more complex puzzle to build a meaningful progression into something where it's not obvious, and the listener has to pay a bit more attention to figure out what's going on (not really, but your brain does focus a bit more on it). In some sense you fool the listener into believing you are doing the "wrong" thing (creating tension as things don't go as expected) and then when you properly tie it together into a release you essentially say "see I was just messing with you." It's sort of like magicians sometimes make you think they failed.
Apparently not everyone likes their music challenging to listen though, so your audience will be smaller and they will be more demanding too. They are paying more attention, they want more complexity to keep them interested, yet it still needs to be meaningful or it becomes noise. So if you don't tie it together properly, the effect will be like a magician accidentally revealing what he was trying to do; unless it's funny in some way, it's probably not very entertaining at all. So trying to do things the hard-way has no value, unless you can pull it off properly.
But back to the topic of simple: I think it's the layering of meaningful progression in chords, melodies, phrases, rhythms, etc... and often interplay of the layers that makes it all "click" into something that sounds "good" even if ultimately it's all pretty damn boring.
That said, I've yet to write a chart-topper, so take my thoughts for what they are worth: as incoherent thoughts of someone who does some music for fun as a hobby.
Typical pop garbage... but that doesn't mean it doesn't do the "pop garbage" stuff correctly.so what you think about this guy?
