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This live stream explored "genre flipping" - taking well-known songs and transforming them into different musical styles. The session showed how understanding the original song well makes it easier to experiment with different genres.
The stream opened with discussion about relative major and minor chords, using examples like C major and A minor. This relationship was demonstrated as being three steps apart on the fretboard, and shown to be useful for understanding how scales relate to each other.
The main focus was genre flipping demonstrations. "Highway to Hell" was played as a soft ballad rather than hard rock, keeping the same chords but changing the feel completely. "Seven Nation Army" was transformed from its rock riff into a jazzy, upbeat version using E minor, C, and B7 chords with a loop pedal, showing how swing rhythm and jazz elements can completely change a song's character.
Other examples included "Valerie" played as a rock song, "Baker Street" given a ska treatment, and "Rocky Mountain High" with classic rock styling. The stream also referenced famous genre-flipped covers like Mike Flowers Pops' orchestral "Wonderwall," Gary Jules' "Mad World," and Nazareth's rock version of Joni Mitchell's "This Flight Tonight."
Key techniques covered included using loop pedals for improvisation, changing rhythm patterns, altering instrumentation, and how different vocal styles can transform songs. The session wrapped up with a look at AI-generated genre-flipped music from a YouTube channel called Fake Music.