Originally Posted by
Rick
I've noticed that physically engaging music makes more use of fifths and "power chords" (in rock music, the base note together with its fifth and octave). The more seventh chords you use and the more you take out the fifths, the less "vital" the music becomes. (I'm thinking of chords like the one with the notes C-E-B-D.) Maybe this is because the smaller or more unusual intervals take longer to digest and so the chords have to be given more space and emphasis. You can't play them with distortion on an electric guitar without it turning into mush.
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