tutorial video sending wrong message

[TechMouse]

I don't agree with encouragement to steal and use other peoples drum patterns etc in a tutorial.

I dunno... countless quality tunes have been built around the rhythm of a classic breakbeat or whatever.

[RDR]

How about stealing an arrangement?

To my knowledge there is only ONE arrangement that has been at the forefront of defending its own copyright.. and thats John Cage's 4' 33''.. its as simple as this, how do you copyright an arrangement of nothing... and thats because to play nothing, you cannot change a thing, becuase nothing is there to change... its a real mind bender!!!!! and been succesfully defended in the court twice i seem to remember.

drum patterns are a difficult one... breaks and standard drum patterns have been around for years - they are printed without refernce to an originator (AFAIK) and are available for robbing.

recordings of drum patterns are a different thing altogether. The copyright covers the song writer (rarely a drummer by origin) the performance (the drummer themselves) and recording copyright (the person/studio where the performance was recorded and possibly mastered)

And all this has to considered on top of the phrase "Prior Art" which covers such things as chords, scales, basic chord progressions etc.

Sampling, breaking, effecting and possibly re-pitching are perfectly acceptable ways of taking what is effectivly a sound and re-enginnering it.

Sampling, reversing and leaving as is becomes not just un-original but also makes a producer into a dreadful shit.

:lol:

[Honeey]

I dunno... countless quality tunes have been built around the rhythm of a classic breakbeat or whatever.

I don't disagree with sampling in music it wouldn't be the same without it but I think learning how to be creative from "scratch" first just makes the person develop a more creative mindset with whatever they do in the future. :)

[rhythmtech]

I don't disagree with sampling in music it wouldn't be the same without it but I think learning how to be creative from "scratch" first just makes the person develop a more creative mindset with whatever they do in the future. :)

you're 1005 right. you need to learn the rules before you can break them.