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So...the more complex the better? What do you listen to, then? So if I just threw a bunch of chord progressions and time signature changes as I could at a song, I've got a real masterpiece in the works?
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It's amusing how nobody on the planet Internet understands this simple little truth: that there is a
good complexity (e.g. a lot of classical music) and a
bad complexity (e.g. a lot of jazz music.) When I (and every other sane person) praise complexity what I (we) mean is that a thing should consist of as many properly coordinated elements as possible. The emphasis is on "properly coordinated". If these elements aren't properly coordinated then that's a bad, fake, meaningless, stupid complexity -- not a complexity at all but, in fact, simplicity posing as complexity.
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So what would you call it?
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Ummmm.. pretentious? I'd just drop the word completely.
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But you just said making really complex music is better...this kind of refutes that as jazz musicians make some of the most complex music around.
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Their complexity is of the bad kind.