“One Chord Best”
Whilst looking for the tabs on ‘Walkin With Jesus’ (another great two chorder, I’ll probably just play D-G or something) I found this interview with Peter Kember.
I like this quote:
Three chords good, two chords better, one chord best.’ It’s the idea that minimalism is maximalism. That’s one of the things I don’t like about some bands. They have like 24 different instruments going off together on the same track. My thing is about finding the three or four most essential things to convey it, and if those parts are well played, they’ll shine in a way they never could have if they were surrounded by twenty other things. I feel that the more minimal approach has a much more maximal effect on the listener. I don’t think I’ve written more than two songs that don’t have a drone all the way through it. Even if it has a three-chord chord change, there’s one note common to all three chords. I like stuff in that whole Pythagorean scale where you basically pick a key and stick to it and all changes are sympathetic to it.
