Now this is very cool and very insightful, what J3 just said.

Pro songwriters strongly advise me: Do NOT try and write what is on the radio. By the time you hear it, it is already old and they are working on new stuff you will hear next year. That is, if you ever get a feedback evaluation that tells you to use the idioms and "slang" on the radio today, don't do it. You are wasting your time. You are entering a race that has already been won. You have to enter the real race and that is the race to fresh.

It is kind of like the old adage about reading the business news. "Don't make business judgments based on what you read in the paper. The real investors knew all that stuff three weeks ago." In other words, all the real decisions are made on inside news and inside bets--and by the time you read it in the paper the news is already old.

So, yeah, I agree with J3 on this one.

I just hope that when the future does arrive, they allow us to start playing 3rds, 5ths and 6ths again, and that we are allowed to be "emotional" once more and that people don't give anymore Ted talks saying bizarre things like "Don't give them 4, give them 2 + 2."

I miss the 3rds, and 6ths and 5ths. And I like piano players--and other people who know how to play. I miss them, too.

Please bring them back God.

smile

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