{"id":28528,"date":"2015-09-13T05:59:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T10:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28528"},"modified":"2015-09-13T06:21:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T11:21:53","slug":"bad-and-wrong-music-lessons-part-6-house-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28528","title":{"rendered":"Bad and Wrong Music Lessons, Part 6: “House” Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been almost a year<\/a> since I did one of these posts where I infuriate music nerds by explaining everything simply enough for you to understand, but just wrong enough to be really, really annoying.<\/p>\n

As I’ve mentioned before, I am both a music snob and a music slob<\/a>. Some people have deep, broad tastes. They appreciate everything from classical to metal, and know lots of obscure things about everything on the spectrum. My tastes are narrow and shallow. I basically only like electronic music, and I only like the catchy mainstream stuff. I’m not particularly knowledgeable. I can’t explain the musical roots and influences of an artist or genre. My talent for music appreciation begins and ends with, “This sounds catchy. I’ll listen to it until I’m sick of it.”<\/p>\n

So reading music lessons from me is like getting lessons in movie production from somebody who only watches Michael Bay movies. It’s not that I can’t teach you anything, it’s just that there are literally tens of thousands of people in the world who could teach you orders of magnitude more. <\/p>\n

But as luck would have it, I run this blog and not them, so you’ll have to settle for the flakes of knowledge I manage to glean from Wikipedia and my own misguided experiments. Today’s lesson – which has already been obnoxiously spoiled by the post title – is on the genre of “house music”. Here’s an example of the form:<\/p>\n