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I totally agree with this request but there are problems with it. So many classic R & R songs from that era are full of song specific licks that PG cannot include because of copyright issues. Just off the top of my head, Hotel California, Satisfaction, anything by Steely Dan, Long Train Runnin, Suzy Q, the list goes on and on. There's not too much there that PG could put into a style without running into legal problems. The basic rock beats from those songs to jam over we already have, it's all the cool parts that are missing. Notes has the same problem. He has some great styles that fit certain classic songs without those specific well known instrument parts. Those you have to play yourself.

There have been so many threads about copyright I certainly don't want to get into it again but the basic rule of thumb is if there's an instrument part that when you hear it you instantly can identify the song then that's covered by copyright and you can't use it like the intro to Satisfaction for example.

Bob



I hear what you're saying loud and clear but there are ways around almost everything. Satisfaction, for example. The "signature opening lick" EE E GbG etc. was Richards playing a single note "melody line" which makes it POTENTIALLY subject to copyright protection and the "signature" nature of that riff pretty much ends all arguments.

BUT....I don't think there could be any assertion of infringement if there was a CHORD PROGRESSION such as E E EE G etc. while letting a live player play the lick including the EE EGbG etc. slur type lick over it.

So, there could be a "satfac" style with CHORD changes that would fit the tune...for all intents and purposes without running afoul of copyright issues.

Ditto for Hotel California's 7 chord progression which famously coincides SO closely to Jethro Tull's "We Used to Know" a band that the Eagles toured with BEFORE Hotel was written!

If there ever was going to be an infringement suit over a chord progression that would have been an ideal candidate.

It is the EMBELLISHMENTS of the HC progression that would land you in a federal court if you wrote a song based on BOTH the changes and the single note embellishments.

I haven't looked into the relative proportions of the BIAB styles but the poster is right in the sense that the latest data show thar rock albums outsell the next genre )R&B 2-1. 1.4-1 for Country and 10-1 compared to jazz, "electronic" and classical.

So, if the rock style proportions don't fairly closely resemble actual album sales then I would agree that PG is making a marketing error.

Here are the 2011 sales by genre stats for anyone who is interested.

http://www.statista.com/statistics/188910/us-music-album-sales-by-genre-2010/

Regards,
Jim