Originally Posted by John Lawrence Schick
If copyright infringements start using chord progressions as an infringement issue, we’re all in trouble.
John smile


Riddle me this: When are chords also melody?

When they're broken chords, like the intro to Taurus and Stairway!

IOW, you can't hum a block chord, but you can an arpeggiated one. And if it's soloing with no background music, a listener is certainly hearing chords as melody

I imagine this get's explored in the case.. It's a fuzzy area, at least to me.

Mike

Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 06/13/19 10:58 AM.

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