re: thoughts about structure more generally
@Ratttz Oh yeah. As much as I like to dig into esoteric shit it's one of the reasons I do have a soft spot for the usual trappings of pop music - verse/chorus/verse structures, the old I-V-vi-IV progression and its variations, etc etc. Hackneyed as they may be, the magic is in their accessibility and the fact it's incredibly easy to improvise over them and make them your own.
re: thoughts about structure more generally
@Ratttz Mhmm. The familiarity serves to root it in something people will recognize, render it not totally alien to them - what you do with the rest is all up to you. Perhaps you take a staid progression but substitute a chord with something spicier, perhaps you fuck with the rhythm, perhaps you play a weird scale over it all for flavor's sake, perhaps you just get creative with the melody and improvise a whole bunch - there are *so* many different directions you can take things to keep things interesting without alienating your audience outright.
