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Coldplay sued by Joe Satriani
BrilliantEraser:
I am just going to play the devil's advocate, put this out there, and say that the only part Coldplay apparently ripped off is the first three notes. Not entirely sure that constitutes plagiarism, since there can only be how many combinations of notes in the entire music world? There has to be some form of overlap.
BrilliantEraser:
For three notes. I listened to the same thing as you did.
KickThatBathProf:
The entire chord progression was the same
Nodaisho:
--- Quote from: the_pied_piper on 07 Dec 2008, 18:00 ---If that was meant to be an original riff they made a piss-poor job of researching any others to make sure it really was. I hope they get sued for so much they can't afford to play 'music' any more at least. :laugh:
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Wait, so now I've got to listen to thousands of bands just to make sure nobody has used the same chord progression before?
I still think it sounds just a bit similar, though. Same timing on shifts as well, it's one thing to use (for instance) a GEA chord progression, like hundreds of bands have done before, it is another thing to use the exact same riff as TNT.
BrilliantEraser:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 07 Dec 2008, 19:24 --- KickThatBathProf beat me to it, but I explained it a bit more detailed, so...
--- Quote from: BrilliantEraser on 07 Dec 2008, 19:16 ---For three notes. I listened to the same thing as you did.
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Oh, I see what you mean now. The issue isn't the exact notes Chris Martin/Satriani hits, but the chord progression and melody. The fact that you can lay them on top of each other and sound completely harmonious throughout is what breaks it - the overlay version demonstrates that they always change at the same time and that they are played at the same speed. Whether or not Chris Martin hits the exact same notes as Satriani doesn't actually matter.
And even if you do listen to the notes, note (hurr) that they are always completely harmonious, the two songs could have been a collaborative effort by Coldplay and Satriani.
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Okay, I think I see what you mean. I just am usually very skeptical when it comes to musical "plagiarism" for reasons I stated above. And I like your play on words thing (hurr). :wink:
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