Here’s one I’ve known about for a while that mocks the overuse of the chord progression used in Pachelbel’s Canon in D
Here’s another one that mocks the overuse of the I-V-vi-IV progressions (I don’t think there’s a name for this one).
As someone who used to play a lot of music, and who still has somewhat more than a passing interest in music theory, I really enjoyed these two videos. I wanted to share them with everyone here and also ask if anyone’s got anything similar!
That’s fun stuff, esp. the last one. But I take from it an upshot opposite to that many take away from it. I think it shows how much a good musician can do with the same basic song structure. Sure they all have the same four chord sequence, but the songs are nevertheless all (for the most part) very different. Each one is its own unique entity, despite the common underlying chord structure.
Can’t connect to Youtube at work, but I’m assuming that first link goes to Rob Paravonian’s Pachelbel bit? A great bit that I’ve seen him do many times. It’s great at live performances because he’s constantly updating it.
Also check out the song he tried to submit to American Idol for performances by contestants. It’s called “I’m Peaking Right Now”.
I don’t have anything similar, but when I learn songs on guitar, I group them by chord progression and riff type. It’s an easy way to remember them…
It doesn’t surprise me, I think that there are certain “overmelodies” that simply sound nice to people.
I inadvertently achieved an even cooler effect by accidentally opening the video in two Google Chrome tabs. One was half way though and then I started the second one by returning to the tab. Although the songs were completely different it all fitted together, kind of like a round from schooldays.