It seems kind of dumb but my entire understanding of music and how i made sense of harmony came from root voicing block chords. But it's a serious rut. because obviously listening to your music there's a whole other thing to it which i interpret as "sparse-ness". Meaning EVERY note can MATTER and hold serious weight leading into wherever it goes. I just suppose this anyway...But for Years i couldn't begin to understand the logic to it. Meanwhile, I plowed through a harmony book. learned about all these cool chords Outside of the major scale that relate to the major scale. and implement them as well as fun time signatures into my work in a way that was organic and good. but i still do the dumb chord thing. and so like a year ago to h
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  evolve and understand why I needed to change I started transcribing pop songs i enjoyed, completely. even maracas for like one upbeat on a single measure. So I think my ear is getting better because of that. i mean it might be ridiculous. considering i'm sure even the players for "running on empty"-jackson browne were looking at Much simpler charts than what they actually played. but i insist on doing it. Anyway! So all this time passes in my development and i still feel like i'd immediately fall face first if i were let out in the real world because of the chord thing.
yeah but it doesn't take long to get up. you'd be surprised how quickly, once you get out there