http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5egA3dZ91Dc

Very amusing!

[swervedriver]

Seen this?

Seen this?

Yep.

Haha, thats awesome.

Dunno what it says about DT though

Awesome band. Awesome members. Awesome skills instrumentally and compositionally, but its true, their newer albums are based way too much around typical chordal progressions. This video proves it really...

Haha, thats awesome.

Dunno what it says about DT though

Awesome band. Awesome members. Awesome skills instrumentally and compositionally, but its true, their newer albums are based way too much around typical chordal progressions. This video proves it really...

The only thing it says about DT is that by some weird coincidence they happened to write a chord sequence that was very similar to a Rick song!

some weird coincidence

Hardly weird... There are only roughly 7 chords per scale/key (on average)(excluding harmonic colour like 7ths and suspensions etc.)... some of them sound horrible from one to another, already making those transitions less common to use. I like that song by DT, I like all of their songs, but theirs no doubt that the chord progressions in that song and many others are very standard, and their is no argument in that pop music is massively based around similar standard chord progressions... "Coincidences" like that are bound to happen. I bet there are quite a few more famous pop classics that would also fit well.

Go watch that power metal version of "I kissed a Girl". Somebody took the vocal melody, added some powerchords (playing standard, common chords, and not even the ones played in the actual song) and guess what, it still worked perfectly.

Of course its still a slight coincidence, and the maker has done well to realise/notice what he had to realise/notice to come up with the video... I'm just saying, with that song being nothing particularly complex musically, it hasn't really surprised me all that much.