sadmanbarty
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1) Songs are usually based on chord progressions. Those clusters of notes (that might be on a piano or guitar) that the melody rides over. They give a sense of movement and narrative. You subconsciously tend to perceive these chord progressions by the bass.
2) Modal jazz changed that by not changing chords for ages in the bass. The bass just staying on one chord for ages. This gives a feeling of stillness.
3) This was introduced to funk by the track 'cold sweat', which it has been acknowledged was a rip off of pioneering modal jazz track 'so what'
5) From funk it made its way into rap. this gives lots of that 90's rap its weedness. if it was moving round harmonically it wouldn't add that sense meditation.
https://youtu.be/L84DV_gy7nM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bMQTU2iI1E
6) another way of doing modal jazz is to just go back and forth between two chords. which you get in rap as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ6lB7FKxi8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii63fKLTSuU
https://youtu.be/qyMnON6tzpM
https://youtu.be/OOPjFkVJbew
2) Modal jazz changed that by not changing chords for ages in the bass. The bass just staying on one chord for ages. This gives a feeling of stillness.
3) This was introduced to funk by the track 'cold sweat', which it has been acknowledged was a rip off of pioneering modal jazz track 'so what'
5) From funk it made its way into rap. this gives lots of that 90's rap its weedness. if it was moving round harmonically it wouldn't add that sense meditation.
https://youtu.be/L84DV_gy7nM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bMQTU2iI1E
6) another way of doing modal jazz is to just go back and forth between two chords. which you get in rap as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ6lB7FKxi8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii63fKLTSuU
https://youtu.be/qyMnON6tzpM
https://youtu.be/OOPjFkVJbew