Let me say first and foremost when it comes to music I’m a cowboy. Made more out of 3 to 4 chords than anything else. Then again played stuff that sounds nice and subsequently found I was playing chords I didn’t know I knew.

I was always under the impression that keys such as Bb or Eb were often used to make things easier for instruments that were more natural in that key (horns, brass, winds or whatever they are called).

In the reading I’ve carried out, the general opinion is that many progressions are not copyrighted because they are standards some were written many, many, many years ago (if written at all).

Copyright often seems to go way to far. For example, someone plays a twiddle on a flute, then, some person says “oh dear that reminds me of an old kookaburra, maybe we could sue and win”.

Was there any intent? Who cares there could be money in it.

Who owns 12 bar blues or is it 12 bar country maybe throw a couple of fingers in a different place it becomes 12 bar jazz or 12 bar classical. At what point does it stop.

Yes people deserve to be paid and intellectual property is of importance but IMHO so is the need for common folk to express themselves.

My rant

Tony

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