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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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open E & open F were the two main trademarks of Metallica.. just pick them in a frenzy and bash out a power chord.
BUT.. thats like saying 'power chords' were invented and only to be used by Black Sabbath or whoever else.
Can't quite keep the open E and open F as trademarks.. even though they were critical to the sound of Metallica. |
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Axl Rose
Joined: 16 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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Tiger Beer or anyone else,
please tell me of some metallica songs that use this E and F thing. i'm stuck. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:39 am Post subject: |
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Tiger Beer or anyone else,
please tell me of some metallica songs that use this E and F thing. i'm stuck. |
This is typical guitar stuff (in tablature) for Metallica..
they take their pick and just pick that open E (top heavy string on the guitar) or the open F (second from top heavy string on the guitar).. and then after a few fast picking on that open string.. they lay down a power chord.. (as you can see from the tablature).
Its fairly signature Metallica sound.. its that hard driving da-da-da-da sound imbetween the power chords you hear so often in the mass majority of their songs. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:55 am Post subject: |
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| I know a bit about musical copyright, and it's a fact that you can't copyright chords, only melody |
I read you could copyright anything that was 'recognisable' so if you started off a song with the same chord as the one that opens "Hard Day's Night"- the Beatles would probably have a case.
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Ah, the lovely G7suspended4th, a staple in jazz since before John was a twinkle in his daddies eye...
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Your material must meet the three criteria set down by the copyright statutes:
It is a work of authorship.
It is an original work.
It is fixed in a tangible medium.
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As far as I know there has never been a sucessful copyright suit over chords. Certainly, one chord, or two chords in sucession would come under "short phrase", and are not considered substantial enough entities to copyright. If you could copyright chord sequences there would be no blues music industry, there would only be about 5 blues songs and everyone would be busy sueing each other. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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Hehe-- it reminds me of an old Bloom County comic where Oliver tries to patent the numbers 0 and 1 so that he can sue the manufacturers of every compact disc ever made for copyright infringement.
It's kinda like Rush to me-- Metallica used to be a good band, but in the last ten years they've just embarassed themselves by just not knowing when to give it up and retire gracefully. Deep Purple did the same thing, and they did it without advocating that record companies sue and harass their listening fans.
Ken:>
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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metallica hasn't been relevant since 1990. why even start a thread? everything since napster has been "we're not as popular as we used to be, and now we're in therapy... please pay attention to us!!!"
crap. a bunch of dads playing metal... it's problematic at best. |
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