https://youtu.be/lp-EO5I60KA
 
What chall think?
 
Publicity stunt?  2,360,500,180 views?  That's 2.3B.

Ed Sheeran - Shape of You
 
3,593,335,644 views
 
 I think he just liked the chord progression. I'd like more songs t be using more chord progressions than
 
 


 

Rick Beato is a smart cookie and knows music inside out and backwards.
 

jamesg1213
Rick Beato is a smart cookie and knows music inside out and backwards.

Have you seen his videos on his son Dylan and how to develop perfect pitch?  I think his daughter (2 years old) has perfect pitch, too.  Incredibly interesting.  
 
I'm not sure about the song stealing stuff.  I love Rick, but the idea that songs are melodies and lyrics, while chords and progressions are common material just doesn't work for me.  Not sure why I have a problem with that, it just doesn't seem to fit.  

And Cake Beepso is.....

nevermind.

@Voda, So then every i v vii blues song is a ripoff?

Its not what's true it what you can argue in court.

George Harrison "loses" , John Fogerty "wins". And so it goes.

Its not what's true it what you can argue in court.

George Harrison "loses" , John Fogerty "wins". And so it goes.

bapu
@Voda, So then every i v vii blues song is a ripoff?

No, but I think the opposing logic is problematic too.  Can I not ripoff a single chord progression in all of music history?  There's not one song I could totally copy in terms of chords and progressions and that's not a ripoff at all?
 
Are modified chords simply a chord with a melodic note?  Or are they part of the common material? I can play a unique set of modified chords that can have quite a signature about them, and that would seem inadequate to say that doesn't make it a song, and yet, I concede it's still just a pile of chords that someone else could put another melody over and perhaps be a different song.  
 
I don't have strong opinions on the subject, I'm just spitballing and stumbling my way in the dark here.