@@myname-mz3lo tell that to the multiple plaintiffs who have sued him over the years. I’ve listened to a few of the songs he’s been accused of stealing. It ain’t inspiration, it’s pretty blatant.
@@DazReht some soul groups have built their names off covers, an example are the escorts, who did a cover of a smokey Robinson, stevie wonder started doing Ray Charles songs as well. This ‘stealing’ formed hip hop today but the innovators like Kanye and Tyler basically make it their own, but I see your point.
@@DazReht hmmm. I looked it up and only found one case against John Legend and it was for a song written in 2004... then realized you probably meant Pharrell. Ouch
There is no such thing as stealing chord progressions. The day one single person can claim ownership rights to a combination of notes is the day i quit music.
I don't think I've ever seen one of these so detailed that wasn't focusing on the engineering aspect. It's so hard to find videos where people explain the actual process of making the music and the logic behind it like this. And then the examples which were pretty perfect because it nailed why people liked things about those songs and it exploited them perfectly.
exactly... I've been looking at Make Pop Music and some other "Beat Making" RU-vidrs who literally just focus on engineering aspect and I hate that. I'm glad I stumble across this video heheh
This is EXACTLY the video I've been trying to find for SO LONG!!! I'm a beginner to music theory and songwriting and I've been wanting to understand how to recreate the sound of a certain artist / genre / era, or what motifs are typical of certain artists (like you mentioned re Stevie Wonder), for ageeeees THANK YOU! 😅 Can you do more? 🥰
Happy to hear it! Seems like there's a huge need for new music to sample right now. So hard to dig for stuff that hasn't already been used. Wishing you the best!
was heavily getting into 70s and 80s pop and soft rock and soul lately and wanted to try my hand at making a song like that but didn't know where to start. This video was a masterclass, helpful, fun, and engaging and easy to follow and also you have a beautiful voice. Thank you for this video!
Love the fact your making money of not only being totally unoriginal but also how hide this unoriginality. I kinda think your everything that’s wrong with music. On the other hand you are proof that people like Ed Sheeran basically do shallow dives on past masters (mostly black) and then pass it off as their own. Nice going 👍
So nice to see a video where the music is actually good! I have been swimming through masses of tutorials - on Cubase, Ableton, mixing, gain staging - and the hardest thing is to have to suffer through the total crap music they use for their examples 🤣 Your song is really beautiful sounding - but it is also of the style of music I like 😄. My ears needed this after one hour of techno and electronica torture today.
This is SO cool. I just subscribed to your newsletter too- if you ever make classes (in the vein of Andrew Huang's Monthly) I would freaking sign up in a heartbeat.
Thanks for sharing! this was awesome. I I felt disheartened once you started singing because that is where abilities draw the line :(. However great info in here! Question, I like to produce soul music, do you have any recommendations for finding soulful singers? So many singers I meet only want to do modern stuff such as EDM, Pop, etc.
you're just calling yourself out to be a bad artist. every artist "steal". the only thing this guy did was to get inspired by singing the 9th of a scale note over a 1-3-5-7 chord, nothing that Al Green invented
