Huge use of the G Chord

[tjmac66pc]

people get too caught up in the 'labeling' of music genres in my opinion...it's not about the label, it's about listening to the music and enjoying it... not liking someone because they are "too Pop for me" as some people put it, is the most absurd thing i've heard...if DMB is labeled pop, then good. If they are not, then good... I really don't care, i like their music regardless

[everydayDMBfan_18]

Dave should take up heroin again

[hcole]

Dave should take up heroin again

I have been considering the heroine lately. I suck at playing so I thought it might help.

[c_tietze]

I abuse/reuse/overuse the G chord since it's one of the first chords I ever learned.

Long liva da G'a chorda

[everydayDMBfan_18]

Dave should take up heroin again

I have been considering the heroine lately. I suck at playing so I thought it might help.

Are you joking or are you being serious?


Heroin can fuck you up pretty badly. It really really addictive too.

[dmbguitar718]

[quote="fatjack"][quote="thepackage0"]I like songs that sound good, regardless of what key they're in.

did i ever say anything about not liking songs in the key of G? no, i sure as fuck didn't.

its just overused in pop because its an easy key to sing in and write guitar based music with

if you say he is basing a lot of his new riffs around the G chord, chances are the key of the songs will be in G, all pop music is in either C, G, or D, and to a lesser extent F. its that simple.

i really hate the direction his guitar work has taken lately, there is no creativity to it, its all bland and common.

yea, I belive you did.. calm down

actually i didn't, me not liking his new guitar work has nothing to do with what key its in, that comment was merely an aside to the "key of pop" issue

oh, I thought you were agreeing that he was useing G more, and therefore becoming closer to pop. And then you said you didn't like the direction his guitar work was taking. I guess I read it wrong, but you still didn't have to get defensive.

i dotn feel like i was getting defensive, all i said was "fuck"

"did i ever say anything about not liking songs in the key of G? no, i sure as fuck didn't. "

sounds either defensive or offensive to me

all depends on how you look at it, it was more goofiness than anything

ok, I guess we can stop our pyramid now

NEVER!

if you insist

oh god it's turing into nDMB[/quote]

hey let me play[/quote]

sweet.

[whatshername]

[quote="thepackage0"][quote="fatjack"][quote="thepackage0"]I like songs that sound good, regardless of what key they're in.

did i ever say anything about not liking songs in the key of G? no, i sure as fuck didn't.

its just overused in pop because its an easy key to sing in and write guitar based music with

if you say he is basing a lot of his new riffs around the G chord, chances are the key of the songs will be in G, all pop music is in either C, G, or D, and to a lesser extent F. its that simple.

i really hate the direction his guitar work has taken lately, there is no creativity to it, its all bland and common.

yea, I belive you did.. calm down

actually i didn't, me not liking his new guitar work has nothing to do with what key its in, that comment was merely an aside to the "key of pop" issue

oh, I thought you were agreeing that he was useing G more, and therefore becoming closer to pop. And then you said you didn't like the direction his guitar work was taking. I guess I read it wrong, but you still didn't have to get defensive.

i dotn feel like i was getting defensive, all i said was "fuck"

"did i ever say anything about not liking songs in the key of G? no, i sure as fuck didn't. "

sounds either defensive or offensive to me

all depends on how you look at it, it was more goofiness than anything

ok, I guess we can stop our pyramid now

NEVER!

if you insist

oh god it's turing into nDMB[/quote]

hey let me play[/quote]

sweet.[/quote]

i know right?

[whatshername]

So Dave's playing alot songs in G-strings?

um NO! SILLY! WHO SAID THAT??!/

[tjmac66pc]

So Dave's playing alot songs in G-strings?

yes....and the other night he played a few songs in a teddy

[Teego Time]

Arguing online is retarted.

That's a very argumentative thing to say.

How dare you argue with me! I'll kill you for that! This is blasphemy! An outrage! No one dissagrees with me! No one! Muahahahahaha... err

Hey man I dig the APC quote in your sig.

Oh yeah back on topic, G's a great chord, there's just soo much you can do with it. Seriously, when your improving, G works good for that kinda stuff.

[Brock]

"In America, there's this element of competition, this inner... like 'Which is better? Country, hip-hop, (I will add Pop), or rock & roll?' What?! Good music is good music and everything else can go to hell." - Dave Matthews

Awesome.

[coyoteguy]

One chord that I think Dave uses a lot is the Bm chord. It seems to be in almost every song. But, he can do it and not me, so is still the shit! Am I right?

[ryopan]

One chord that I think Dave uses a lot is the Bm chord. It seems to be in almost every song. But, he can do it and not me, so is still the shit! Am I right?

you have never been more right!

[MWR]

I think the liberal use of G or Bm doesn't imply anything really. It's what key he plays in and what chords are used as a whole that detirmines these thiings. His chords are almost always major, minor, or suspended. He hardly uses any dominant chords which is a shame cause they're pretty important. There's almost no real tension in his music which is irratating cause the build and realease of tension is what makes songs dynamic. Classical and Jazz are based around this concept and thus Dave is very much pop.
A good example of a pop artist that creates complex but accessible music is Sting. He's the shit.
I love Daves music obviously, but it didn't take long to realise that it's very simple and as your ear gets more developed it gets boring. There's a handful of his songs that I consider as good as it gets but I know longer hold him up on a pedestal

[i like tictacs]

Yes, Sugar Will is a pop song progression, you know, with all those time changes and such