Interesting article. Point though, some very repetitive songs will score high in imaginativeness. Think of Funk - 1 chord for the whole song would score 100%.
Am thinking of songs like James Brown’s “cold sweat”, “Shake everything you’ve got” by Maceo Parker (2 chords, 5 changes), or “straight cold player” by Lenny Kravitz, which has 2 ch…
Interesting article. Point though, some very repetitive songs will score high in imaginativeness. Think of Funk - 1 chord for the whole song would score 100%.
Am thinking of songs like James Brown’s “cold sweat”, “Shake everything you’ve got” by Maceo Parker (2 chords, 5 changes), or “straight cold player” by Lenny Kravitz, which has 2 chords and 3 changes, so 66%, that’s if you count the first chord (from no chord to a chord) as a change.
On the other side it means a song must be very imaginative to manage with so few chord changes. But they sure are repetitive.
And I wonder if such songs even show up in that database because one would probably describe them in tabs.
Interesting article. Point though, some very repetitive songs will score high in imaginativeness. Think of Funk - 1 chord for the whole song would score 100%.
Am thinking of songs like James Brown’s “cold sweat”, “Shake everything you’ve got” by Maceo Parker (2 chords, 5 changes), or “straight cold player” by Lenny Kravitz, which has 2 chords and 3 changes, so 66%, that’s if you count the first chord (from no chord to a chord) as a change.
On the other side it means a song must be very imaginative to manage with so few chord changes. But they sure are repetitive.
And I wonder if such songs even show up in that database because one would probably describe them in tabs.
Does Funk count against Jazz?
Adding “Who Do You Love?” by Bo Diddley to the list of one-chord songs.