#Four Chord Music

[jeremythejirachi]

Yellowcard, The Gaslight Anthem, Streetlight Manifesto, More To Play Four Chord Music Festival 9

@4chordmusicfest's ninth year includes @Yellowcard, @LookOutLoretta_, @americfootball, @KeepFlyingBand and @facetofacemusic!

Ready for some fun this summer in Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh’s beloved annual punk rock festival Four Chord is back for its ninth year. The two-day, 100% DIY festival features a stacked roster, with reunited pop-punk act Yellowcard (performing Ocean Avenue in full) and emo band Taking Back Sunday headlining Saturday, August 12, and reunited heartland punk rockers The Gaslight Anthem headlining…

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#Alkaline Trio #American Football #Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness #Cartel #Dave Hause #Eternal Boy #Face To Face #Festival #Four Chord Music #Four Chord Music Festival #Four Year Strong #Hit The Lights #I Am The Avalanche #Keep Flying #Look Out Loretta #Magnolia Park #Masked Intruder #Mest #Old Neon #Origami Angel #Patent Pending #Punchline #Sincere Engineer #Spaced #State Champs #Streetlight Manifesto #Taking Back Sunday #The Gaslight Anthem #The Home Team #The Interrupters

[red-dead-bisexual]

Me normally: What even is so hot about guys playing guitar? I don't understand the appeal at all

Me when Javier starts playing and singing at camp: I will literally ride him until he breaks

#red dead redemption 2 #rdr2 #javier escuella #I love him sm it's unreal #I think the difference is that most “guitar boys” are just some guy with a jawline who just play four chords and have a mediocre voice #and then they sing watermelon sugar or whatever trending on tiktok nowadays #not Javi though #my precious music boy <3

[doctorwhoisadhd]

thinking about putting together a murray gold leitmotif fakebook

#fakebook = realbook but illegal #realbook = compilation of (usually) jazz standards melody + chord symbols #so it would basically just be melody and chords and MAYBE some ostinato parts #it depends #the lineup would probably be like. #companion themes for: rose martha donna amy clara bill #+ little amy & i call myself me & face of boes theme & marthas quest & together or not at all (+possibly a guitar tab for claras diner) #the doctors theme (the bad wolf one) i am the doctor & a good man? & sad man with a box & maybe song for four i think #villains: daleks‚ cybermen #places/organizations: UNIT rocks‚ this is gallifrey #episode themes: silence in the library & heaven sent & fathers day & madame de pompadour #spinoffs: the sarah jane adventures theme & mr smith's theme & torchwood theme & captain jacks theme #then maybe bc theyre long + might take ages: shepherds boy & vale decem & all the strange strange creatures & long song & doomsday #& where theres tears theres hope #possibly also song of freedom cause i know it #ari opinion hour #dw music #murray gold

[mishalikessoundsandcolours]

@ my moots (or anyone who sees this)

Do you play any musical instruments and if yes, which one(s)? I'm curious Tell me in the tags, asks or replies!

#I have been playing piano for a long time and I still do #then cello for four years but it wasn't really my thing #I can also play guitar a little but only basic chords to sing along #and I have started learning alto sax recently (but I still have to figure out what exactly I want to do with it) #And then there's kazoo recorder and my voice which is fun and doesn't take a lot of energy #misha talks #music

[noturaveragenatty]

baby’s first mosh pit (it’s me, i’m baby)

#photooftheday #edit #blog post #photoblog #vsco #hi #love #selfie #what am i doing #prequel #four chord #pop punk #punk rock #music fair #festivewear #festival #music festival #my ears are ringing #august #mosh pit #moshlings #the home team #real friends #hit the lights #but hey

[hetheyshe]

ive been getting serious about learning to play guitar and so far i know a g chord and the e minor chord ^_^

#text #calyx.txt #on my way to my rock star dreams #once i get d and c down im gonna try playing a song that uses those four chords #and once i got a nice variety i wanna try putting some of my 'lyrics' to music and make a whole song

[orangejynx]

#waterparks #four chord music festival #four chord

[equalvision]

House Parties will be playing Four Chord Music Festival in Pittsburgh, PA this June! Limited Early Bird on sale now, tickets on sale Friday.

#house parties #pop punk #band #four chord music festival #pittsburgh pa #equal vision records

[itsallhoney]

we need to talk about the acoustic set that taking back sunday did at four chord fest

#taking back sunday #a decade under the influence #where you want to be #concert video #music #music festival #four chord fest #emo #alternative #a severe thunderstorm fucked a bunch of shit up or something #this is literally so beautiful #and then they did a backyard show the next night

[the-story-of-how-we-died]

I'm just a rando on the internet whose opinion doesn't really matter, but I have to say, I absolutely hate these types of videos

I did actually watch the video* (it seemed to mostly be an advertisement for a book, but ignoring that), it's premise was: "these songs contain all the notes in a certain key but don't really play the tonic chord of said key, which means it never visits the tonic chord!" which I find utterly maddening.

This is such a common trend among music theorists analyzing modern pop music ("modern" in this case meaning pretty much everything released in the last five decades that's not jazz). So many of them are willing to ignore how a song sounds and treats the harmonies and melodies inside it if it means they can analyze it inside this strict, 14th century western framework**. And, if the 14th century doesn't work, they just jump up one.

"Okay, okay, so the 14th century framework didn't work... what about the 15th? That didn't either? Whew. Well, guess we're pulling out all the stops today: 16th century, here we go."

The problem isn't the specific century's framework you're using, the problem is that you refuse to interact with this music on it's own terms. (The most frustrating part is that this isn't impossible! I know that there are music theorist who do interact with this music on it's own terms, and I find their work fascinating because it at least attempts to explain what's actually happening here.) Stop focusing on the collection of notes the music uses so much and start focusing on the how and why's!***

*You should also give it a watch. Since I disagreed with the basic premise, I might be being a tad uncharitable here.

**They also do mention modes in the final, like, 30 seconds of the video before rehashing the advertisement. But, even then, that is only a slightly more satisfactory answer for why these songs work they way they do.

***It's also possible to exist in two keys at once, which is something that a lot of pop music does that many theorists just... ignore. Purposefully obfuscating the tonic of a song is seriously a staple of so many genres of "modern" pop music. This is an aside, but I did want to mention another possible reason.

#music theory #music #ceris rambles #god I find it so annoying #especially when they get so high and mighty with it #“uh actually I like to listen to music with more than four chords in it” #stfu #even if modern pop music used more than a four chord loop (which many songs do) #you'd still be an annoying fuck about it #you're completely uninterested in the actual music and far more interesting in being superior to others

[waytoobiased]

I know the people who write inaccurate tabs mean well, but when everyone makes covers of songs with completely wrong chords, I die a little inside

I wanted to listen to Rocket Ships, but instead I end up with my ears crying :/

#cavetown #everything is made of stars #music #music theory #rocket ships is not the doo-wop changes outside of like half the chorus #I should be seeing a diminished chord in the interlude but you made it a four chord song #chords make songs what they are #this happens too much

[tumblesthroughtimeandspace]

Just finished a single page of easy music theory homework that should’ve taken about 30 minutes. It took me 4 hours. I loooooove having unmedicated ADHD it’s so fun

#on the verge of tears doing a chord analysis of four fucking measures. I would like to light my brain on fire. can’t hurt! #(for reference I have done chordal analysis of an entire page of sheet music in 15 minutes when the dopamine is there) #(sometimes even less than that! normally it’s fun!) #just about done with this ngl. if my new psychiatrist doesn’t get insurance accredited tomorrow I’m shelling out the $300 for a first visit #remy.txt

[derekdiscaniopictures]

Four Chord Music Festival 10.09.22

#derek discanio #state champs #state champs ny #ryan scott graham #tyler szalkowski #evan ambrosio #kotna #kings of the new age #four chord music festival #fourchord

[grahamstoney]

The Power Of Music & Comedy: Tim Minchin

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The Power Of Music & Comedy: Tim Minchin

Tim Minchin is a thoughtful performer who combines the power of music and comedy to both entertain and impact his audience, while expressing what is on his mind in an engaging and memorable way.

I first came across Tim when a friend offered me a ticket to his Sydney show during the Ready For This? tour in 2009. While I’d never heard of him before, I was immediately drawn in by the proficiency of his piano playing, the intellectual nature of his comedic observations, and his bizarre teased hairstyle.

Tim’s meteoric rise to fame was captured in the documentary Rock ‘n’ Roll Nerd, named after one of his early signature tunes that expressed ambivalence at not fitting the traditional rock star mould:

While he achieved success as a musical comedian in a relatively short period of time, it came after many years of playing keyboard in an 80’s rock cover band. At the beginning of his career he as constantly under pressure to create an income as his wife was keen to give up work and start a family. They were both overjoyed when she became pregnant, but this also ratcheted up the pressure on Tim to provide for his family financially. A particularly vulnerable moment in the documentary happens when his wife has a miscarriage while he is on tour, and we get to see Tim in grief revealing his sensitive side. There is more to him than just his on-stage trickster persona. The one silver lining in this cloud was that gave him some breathing space to launch his career, move to London and become successful before they became pregnant again.

Giles Hardie said that Tim’s success was often a reflection his past experiences, describing him as a “jack of all trades” and quoting co-star David Duchovny from TV series Californication calling him “a high-energy dude” with a “comedic soul”. In an interview with Leigh Sales, Tim described his joy in musical collaboration and the difficulty of avoiding celebrity narcissism.

His song Canvas Bags drives home the importance of taking reusable shopping bags to the supermarket with a degree of repetition bordering on the absurd. We don’t even use canvas bags much in Australia, but with this song in my head, I always remember to take shopping bags every time I leave the house:

One of the hallmarks of a great artist is getting referenced in other artist’s work, and the inclusion of Canvas Bags in the Four Chord Song by The Axis of Awesome is a nod of respect from his comedy colleagues:

Tim frequently tackles important issues in his music, such as the foolishness of belief systems based on pseudoscience in his 9-minute beat poem Storm:

His song Prejudice uses an ironic twist to assault racism:

Tim isn’t afraid to offend his audience, using profanity to highlight the distorted priorities of the Catholic Church’s response to child sexual abuse by priests in Pope Song.

If you think the song is offensive, how could that possibly compare to what some priests have been doing to children with the protection of the church?

Neil Genzlinger says Tim “looks like a character out of ‘Sweeney Todd,’ alternates between absurd, low-key monologues and incongruously comic songs, accompanying himself with gleeful piano pyrotechnics.”

While his ability to weave his comedic genius into his songs is the underpinning of his success, he also has the ability to write sensitive songs. White Wine In The Sun describes the strong emotional dynamics in families as the basis for our feelings of safety and security in the world. Even for atheists like Tim and I, spending quality time with family on Christmas Day feels special, and hearing this song always makes me tear up as I think of Christmas Days spent with my own family in the sun together:

Social issues have always been a significant influence on Tim’s work, and his ability to write, record and produce catchy, quirky and relatable songs rapidly allows him to respond to newsworthy events in a timely manner. Come Home (Cardinal Pell) expressed the outrage that many Australian’s felt at the perception that Cardinal George Pell was avoiding Australian justice by hiding out in The Vatican:

However, Joel Hodge considered it “name-calling and abuse”, saying Tim “seems more interested in provoking reaction than dealing with the facts”, and that “it gives an indication of the level of public debate in Australia”. Gerard Henderson described the song as “abusive”, calling Tim a “militant atheist musician” and accusing him of engaging in guilt by association.

In the wake of the recent bush fire disaster and the coronavirus lockdown, Tim featured on HouseFyre with Briggs, expressing the frustration that many Australians feel with our political leadership’s response in recent times of major crisis:

It got played on Rage last Friday night, a sign of success and mainstream acceptance in the Australian music industry.

Music is unique in its ability to affect us emotionally, and comedy is unique in its ability to disarm our prejudices and highlight inconsistencies in ourselves which we could otherwise easily ignore. By combining the two, Tim Minchin has tapped into a powerful force to not only entertain, but also to enlighten his audience and inspire social change from a grassroots individual level.

#Canvas Bags #Come Home (Cardinal Pell) #Four Chord Song #HouseFyre #Pope Song #Prejudice #Rock and Roll Nerd #Storm #The Axis of Awesome #Tim Minchin #White Wine In The Sun #Music

[fellhalcyon]

my dumbass signed up for intro to music theory bc i like when the musics do funny things to my head but this shit is like??? math???? ‘half diminished’ ‘fully diminished’ tf are you talking about my will to live

#i am not great at music theory #i played piano for like four years before picking up on the fact that every line on the staff meant a specific note #i thought they were just there to give you a general frame of reference for the positions of notes relative to one another #and as a result it is all a new language to me TT #people in my class identifying all the inversions of a seventh chord while i count up the staff like 'every good boy does fine...' #don't perceive me professor i'm sorry i am slaughtering your beautiful natural/harmonic/melodic minor scales #music theory #dfghjiuhgyhujik #it goes to school #it struggles ;-;

[eggmeralda]

I guess pete townshend threw a few 1-1-4-5 chord progressions into a few songs and it changed the trajectory of my 14yo self's life forever

#not that he anywhere near invented that chord progression but like #when he wasn't doing 1 - 1 - flat 7 - 4 he was probably doing this #this and boyfriend kisser from tdwt destroyed my music taste forever and now I'm obsessed with the subdominant chord #but used in the right context #but like honestly you could just play one chord for like 8 hours and then move it up 5 intervals and i will lose my mind #god I love the number four #ramble