How Creed Changed My Life (and took me higher)
- Jered Mckenna
- Aug 5, 2025
- 1 min read
How Creed Changed My Life
(or... How Creed Took Me Higher)
🎶 “Can you take me higher?” 🎶
(Yes. Yes they can.)
(as a side note, have you noticed that there seems to be only one style of internet writing today? It's like this: Everyone writes the same way. Yep. That's right. Style is dead. ✅Originality ✅Soul ✅Feel It's gone. ✅But I have the solution. ------------------ Heh, Anyway, I'll try to avoid the ChatGPT homogenized 5th grade reading level stuff and write my own words, as bad as they may be. So, where was I? Ah yes: "How Creed changed my musical life." Basically, here's what my video says: I realized that by dropping the higher tones and digging into a low, rumbly "root and fifth" kind of sound, songs take on a more neutral, malleable, and nebulous "rock" quality that helped me apply 90s alt rock feel to other songs that otherwise may feel "lame" or "old timey". So the lesson is this: if you want old stuff to sound cool, play an open fifth in the lower end of things (guitar, piano, organ) as your predominant "go to", and you shed a lot of the dated feel of the song. This saves a lot of the "funeral" feel of the old hymns, for example. Try it out for yourself! Lose the third, play low, hold the fifths. Use thirds, 7ths, and 9ths for color sparingly, or just to till in between vocal phrases.
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