There's no way it's that easy... is it?

Last week we asked ourselves what art truly was, if whether or not it needs to be complicated to be appreciated, and if anyone could be an artist. For those who didn't read the previous posts, the answers were: Anything, no, and yes.

This week I will try to reinforce the notion that composing/playing music is A LOT easier than it seems. That being said, this post will be full of videos demonstrating the similarity between songs, and the facility to write one's own music.

Take the "Axis of Awesome" for instance: They take four chords and demonstrate how many songs can be played with just those. Check out the video here.

Other perfect examples are the DJ Earworm mash-ups (and similar compilations from other artists), in which multiple songs are fused together to make up a single song. One comes to quickly realize that there are common themes in the music and that once its discovered, it is not difficult to follow suit. On the bright side, figuring out the formula to creating good music is actually rather simple and explained clearly by YouTube Brett Domino. Check it out.

Finally, check out Rob Paravonian's comedy sketch about Pachelbel' Canon, a classical masterpiece written in the 17th century, and how modern music follows with similar chords.

All of this goes to show that most of today's music is fairly simple and that (almost) anyone can compose/play something similar.

Next week we'll start writing our own song and we'll add both a creative spin and generic feature to it so that I can demonstrate music's simplicity.