My Response To An Emergency Situation

Hey, this is Tony Pappas.

Listen. This is practically becoming an emergency.

From what I'm seeing in the latest YouTube videos, it's like there's an EPIDEMIC out there.

TOO MANY MUSICIANS ALL SOUND THE SAME.

TOO MANY MUSICIANS ARE STILL TRYING TO MAKE IT BY "PLAYING IT SAFE".

This MUST be stopped.

The situation below is practically KILLING ME . . . .

I watch one video and the chord progression is I-V-vi-IV.

Then, in the next video, the chord progression is I-V-vi-IV,

and the next is I-V-vi-IV, and the next: I-V-vi-IV

AHHHHHHGGGG!!!

Is this what music has come to?

EVERY SONG = The. Same. Four. Chords???

PLEASE.

You're BORING me to TEARS!

Here comes my EMERGENCY RESPONSE to guys who are doing this:

LEARN SOME NEW CHORD PROGRESSIONS!

I know, I know . . . you're "playing it safe" so that people will like you.

So that you'll "get on the charts".

But "playing it safe" NEVER, EVER works.

Here's why:

The only people who became LEDGENDARY in music are people who took a risk.

This is true for every human endevour.

They DARED to be different -- but not so different that it turned people off.

*That's the secret*

It's time to do something different . . .

Here's what YOU *MUST* start doing instead:

Find some new progressions and start writing with them until you get good at it.

There are three ways to find new progressions:

• You can learn other people's songs and steal their progressions
• You can memorize a bunch of chords and randomly play them
• You can study harmony & voice-leading

All three work, but I prefer using harmony & voice-leading.

Here's why:

If you learn other people's songs, you can alter the chords a little, but it's going to be hard to come up with something unique.

Why?

Because you'll be SUBCONSCIOUSLY influenced by the song you stold them from.

That's why most songs sound the same today.

The second method (randomly playing chords) is fun.

But it takes a lot longer than using music theory.

I've studied harmony & voice-leading for over 35 years, specifically at UNM with some of the best music professors in the world.

At this point, I'm an expert in music theory.

And you know what?

Even with all that knowledge it still takes a long time to come up with fresh progressions.

Why?

Because, I don't have every progression MEMORIZED.

I wish I did!

Imagine what it would be like to have every progression memorized . . . .

You could scan through all the progressions in your brian.

That would be super fast and easy.

Even after 35 years, I still don't have that ability.

BUT I WANT IT!

That's why I created software to help me do it.

It's called the Prosonic Midi Browser

It helps you scan through a MASSIVE database of high-quality chord progressions, FAST -- as if they're in your memory.

Is it as fast as having them in your own memory?

Of course not.

But the computer's memory is still REALLY fast!

Now you can explore thousands of progressions, quickly find ones you like, and get back to making music.

You get all the benefits of using harmony & voice-leading without having to learn music theory.

And you don't have to spend years memorizing thousands of chord progressions.

There are many tools available for musicians, and this is one of the best.

So get some new progressions!

And let me know when you create something with them, because I'm DYING to hear something NEW!