The only bad thing about mash-ups is that they could very well undo the
mythos that has built up over the years on the streets of Accordion City:
that the Accordion Guy can play anything. That’s simply not true. All
I’m doing is exploiting one of the not-so-secret secrets of rock and
roll: that most songs are based on one of about a half-dozen patterns,
or as we musicians call them, chord progressions. These are tried-and-true
arrangements of chords that are pleasing to the ear.
Take the classic I-IV-V chord progression. Played over 12 bars in 4/4
time, it’s the basis of every blues song. It’s La Bamba, Hang on Sloopy, Twist and Shout, Wild Thing and the muscial
proof for the existence of God, Louie Louie.
The I-VII-IV progression gives us The Smashing Pumpkins’ Cherub Rock, Bachman-Turner
Overdrive’s Takin’ Care of
Business and the “Bow down before the one you serve” part
of Nine Inch Nails’ Head Like a
Hole.
(Want to know about I-IV-V and I-VII-IV? Check out this
article on guitarnoise.com.)
That mention of Nine Inch Nails — one of my musical guilty pleasures
— is the perfect segue for this
mash-up on nathanchase.com that I stumbled across thanks to
one “Miss Fipi Lele” who in turn found it via a blog named largehearted boy.
Imagine Ray Parker Jr.’s Ghostbusters as the bed track for Nine Inch
Nails’ current single, The Hand
That Feeds. Then repeat to yourself over and over: “I
ain’t ‘fraid of no goth!”
can download the track from its creator, Nathan
Chase
or
here to download the track from this site [6.2MB
MP3]
