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#28: Exploring 5s and Free Metered Music
Popular Music has Failed Us!
Popular music, though fun (I'll the first to admit that I LOVE some of the older music like "Knock 3 Times", "Lean on Me", etc.), has dumbed down our musical brains!
It's true. We've been conditioned in the popular music genre to count to 3 or 4. Done! (Let's not even mention the incredibly boring chord progressions!)
Occasionally we run into some interesting time signatures and those songs become hits because the rhythm and feel of them is so strikingly different that people...
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