Mike Overly's 12 Tone Music News

The Latest Guitar and Bass News from around the World Wide Web . . .
 June 11, 2020
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The battle between content creators and copyright holders is hardly a new one, but it seems to be picking up steam.

From a guitar perspective, one of the bright lights in these quarantine times has been the proliferation of famous artists, from Queen's Brian May to Kiss's Paul Stanley, showing how to play their own songs (not to mention groups of musicians getting together to jam on Rush and AC/DC tunes) on electric guitar.

But the YouTube guitar community has always loved demonstration and playthough videos, and an entire industry of content creators dedicated to producing educational clips on how to play various songs and styles has developed over the years.

Traditionally, content creators have argued that they're covered by Fair Use laws when it comes to using small pieces of copyrighted music.

But copyright holders don't always feel the same, and have targeted videos, and sometimes entire channels, for takedown.
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Vai gave himself some parameters to work within: use a Strat style guitar, a very clean tone, no whammy bar, and no pick, just fingers. Steve also had this idea for a technique that he called "joint shifting." This is where you bend a note while fretting another but with a combination of double and triple stop single note bends while fretting other notes and releasing bends.    
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Tommy Emmual says: Don't let your instrument dictate your writing. Guitar players will immediately fall into patterns if we let ourselves. Songwriting is a different thing entirely. As an instrumentalist, I have to figure out how to convey a story without words to the listener, so therefore it's important to avoid clutter. Just tell the story. Don't fill every millisecond of every song. Leave space so the audience can fill in the gaps with their own imagination.
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