Originally Posted by
Drummer
It's how you play it? That's the rudiments and rythm. How it sounds can be changed easily but that's irrelevant to my last post.
It's so easy to borrow a riff and then change it. Something may sound like this..sometime may sound like that...
I just can't buy this point of view - take, for example, this (in tab, because there's no way in hell i'm writing stuff out, scanning it in, and uploading it):
e------------------------------|
B------------------------------|
G------------------------------|
D-5^-5-3------5^-5-3---------|
A--------5-5---------5-5-3----|
E------------------------------|
this riff from grounds for divorce - now, i'm sure that that pattern of notes has been played 1,000 times in bluesey improvs and rock solo's, but it becomes something original when you play it with that intonation, that tempo, and the messy return bend from the G to the Ab at the start of the phrase.
I know from composing a whole load of my own stuff, that you don't
need to borrow anything, whether something similar's been used before is irrelevant, as long as you make your own music your own.
back on topic, the worst band ever would almost certainly be unheard of, and probably dead by now, therefore the debate is pointless.