My point is, you're negating any kind of craftsmanship by reducing it to the mechanical actions involved, which is basically equivalent to saying programming is

My point is, you're negating any kind of craftsmanship by reducing it to the mechanical actions involved, which is basically equivalent to saying programming is just typing. I thought your comment was saying that Creep in particular is just a series of major and minor chords, not that songs in general are just series of major and minor chords. If the argument is that songs in general shouldn't be copyrightable then fair enough I guess.