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Originally Posted by Bushleague
I honestly feel that figuring out how un-right you can go without making things sound plain wrong is pretty much the key to making interesting music.
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Sure. But the assumption a lot of people with those creative instincts make is that interesting music is somehow "breaking rules".
If it sounds good, the only rules it will be breaking are rules that don't apply anyway. The music is simply following rules that those musicians don't realise are already written in theory books; they just haven't read about them yet.
If you speak in slang, you are not following some of the rules of your native language as written in books of grammar. But you are still following the rules of the slang - otherwise there would be no pont in speaking that way! When we speak, we don't make up words, at least not if we want to be understood. We always follow well-known rules, some of them intuitive, always based on the words, grammar and accents we know.
Same with music. We might seek out more unusual sounds, to be more interesting, going off the beaten track, off the main highways. But we still end up following other tracks. We don't choose dead ends...
It might sometimes feel like those paths we find are our own invention, but the very fact it's a path means someone has been that way before. And the track will be on a map somewhere, even if we've never seen the map
Naturally, we can hack our way through the undergrowth if we want, but likely it just won't sound good - not until we find our way on to some other path so we actually get somewhere.