Sampling is when somebody uses an actual recorded section of a song and puts it into another song. I don't think that happens today very often.
I don't think Ed Sheeran has sampled anything that I'm aware of.
I can't think of anything that I know of in modern music that's sampled. I'm sure there is but it's got to be pretty rare.
Melodies get reused. Usually unintentionally. Like Ed Sheeran's melody that is similar to TLC scrubs.. I personally don't see it as any kind of a rip off, but nowadays lawsuits are ridiculous.
All music is based on other music. There are only so many chords, and really only three or four chords that get used for everything.
People's influences come up in their music and they might not even realize it. That's the way music has always been though. Or at least popular music.
There's a lot of good music out today.
Back in the day you needed the blessing of a major studio or record company in order to really record anything well. You needed either a lot of money or somebody to front you a lot of money.
Today people can make albums in their bedrooms. And they do. Professional level equipment is now super affordable and can sit on a laptop computer. It's amazing.
I remember in that '80s when digital recording was just starting to come around. I was thinking wow I can't wait until hard drives are big enough to be able to record digitally.
I think this is a really great time for music.
Of course when you put these tools into everybody's hands and couple that with the internet, you get a lot of crap too. But I think that's cool. Because who am I to say really what is crap or not? I mean obviously some people don't really have talent. Lol. But I think it's cool that anybody who really wants to can release music or publish videos or anything really.
There's not really any gatekeepers anymore that prevent people from being able to get their music distributed.
I agree with everything but sampling. Its not just sampling other so gs, its just more obvious, songs, its the sampling of anything. Go back to Sheeans first days on stage. He would sample gtr rhythms and loop them until he had a whole band, strictly looping samples. He was good st it.
There is good music other there. But like eras gone by contemporary music got most play and overshadows much better stuff. In the 70s, I was almost burned out on Zepplin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, long before they finally got air play. Why I brought up Bonamassa, a hidden prodigy monster gtr player. I did a cpl shows with him, had no idea who he was. The sound company told me they had a gift for me, and sent me out to do him. I was in aww the entire show, just stunned by skill, its hard to impress me, he did it. It was a gift. But his stuff won’t hit mainstream. Some of his stuff is dark. Live version of “Dislocated Boy” is a great vid. Yet, he sells out almost every show.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uYtZtwVMLPYI will say this. When the female artist dance acts came out, the first time I had to play vocal track, it pissed me off. Thats not what ppl pay high prices for. So, I’m about authentic talent, so now days I swim up stream disappointed. Kinda killed my enthusiasm a bit. I guess I’m too old skewl for modern music, prolly what our parents said too.
I’m doing corporate/industrial stuff now. They pay me much more to not do concerts.
Regardless, lots to be said, good cognitive convo. Best of luck on your recordings.
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