Three Dollar Quill

Wow, the last post in this category was a while ago. Anyway, I started small with this whole "music" thing. I came up with some rhythmic ideas I thought were interesting, put them over basic chord loops, found stable-enough scale degrees to put in the melody, and ended up with minimal cores of what could potentially become a song. The thing I need to deal with is just how much heavy lifting the choice of chord loop seems to do:

• Royal Road progression → sounds like it could be from some random OVA I saw ten years ago and forgot about.
• The progression that's been common in pop music → a pop song.
• The same progression, but in minor key → a pop song, but it's sad now.

It's kind of weird to think about how much saying "these chords in this order" seems to constrain what the song sounds like. Like, does it end up with "choose the chords to set the tone, put the desired melody on top, and then just puzzle-game the voicing into place"? Is that how this works? I must be erasing some vital nuance here.

Anyway, I'll leave that to tomorrow, because it's late and I meant to already be in bed.

Good night.