Blog, Blog, Blog………Blah, Blah, Blah!!!!

I started on a new audio-based blog post recently and decided to research the subject on line for a bit. That little jaunt took me on a tailspin of confusion and absolute media-overload that eventually deposited me squarely in the camp of thought that not everyone's insipid opinion on damned near everything belongs on the internet. The proliferation of podcasts and blogs and friggin' tweets, chirps, burps and farts………all neatly packaged and aggressively promoted by major players on the web, lends a voice to every daft, intellectually challenged and morally bankrupt creature with internet access. This, obviously, includes yours truly. I have realized that for me the ultimate wisdom is to really know nothing, but be in a position of constant willingness to learn anything.

So……….what's with all the four-chord song forms? Are we to believe that the listening population of the planet is capable of accepting music based on four chords at a time and no more? Popular music seems to have been reduced to a mindless transmission of danceable rhythmic pulses and no more than a repetitious harmonic structure of four chords, mostly triads. I suppose this is a reflection of a society that is ever so slowly sliding into that black hole of attention deficit. And…………would somebody please tell these producers to leave the vocoder and pitch correction devices alone? In five years, the hit songs will sound like a chipmunk symphony. Having said that, let me point out that there are artists that have embraced this new technology and are moving into a new and unexplored world of sound and artistic expression, Imogen Heap being possibly my personal favorite at the moment.

I would like to share some sites that I have found to be particularly informative and useful for me.

http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/whats-your-songwriting-process.html

http://www.learnjazzfaster.com/7mistakes/7deadly-mistakes.htm

http://recording.org/content/

http://www.practicespot.com/manuscriptpaper.phtml?t=76

See you next time.

The Lazy Monkey