You've heard all this cutting and pasting and correction a million times and don't even know it.
No, I know all of that, everything you said, and have known it for years AND done it myself. But there is a huge difference between what you’re talking about, and what I did… record a perfect 4 measures of a rhythm guitar part, then copy it to all three versus, than there is grabbing things other people did, and copying them into “your” song. That’s my opinion, and if you disagree I’m OK with it as long as we disagree like gentlemen.
I record a part, and copy it a few times in MY song, vs. I take bits and pieces of stuff other people have done and make my song… I view that very differently. That said, full disclosure, I did more than one song with a Boss DR 880… and used it’s preset patterns for the drum parts. But I ONLY did that because I didn’t have access to a drummer, and it was not a commercially released song. And, later I used a drum program and programmed every beat. But again, only on drums because I can’t play drums. I did all the other parts of the songs.
And I know lots of people do that. But I do not view a one man band playing 3-4 instruments or parts, and doing drums on a machine or computer, to be the equivalent of someone sitting down with software drums and synths, and copying a clip here and a clip there and pasting a whole “song” together.
If you all do, that’s fine. I’m not going to argue about it anymore, but don’t really want to be insulted for disagreeing with it either. If you think someone who doesn’t play any instrument but “creates” music that way is a “musician” then that’s fine. So, as long as it can remain civil, I’ll continue to discuss and ask where you guys draw the line on these things, and if we disagree we do.
