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How does filming “song writing sessions” help here? A songwriter could be grocery shopping and hear a tune they like and copy it. I don’t understand how filmin

How does filming “song writing sessions” help here? A songwriter could be grocery shopping and hear a tune they like and copy it. I don’t understand how filming just sessions will protect anyone.

mbreese 5y ago
I think the key is the progression. If you see how a melody is formed, then it’s more likely to be organic. If you are just copying something, there is less of a progression as when you’re video recording, it’s already almost “done”.
- lordnacho 5y ago
  That doesn't answer the question. You could be out buying groceries, hear a good tune, and then pretend you invented it in steps when you get back to your studio. Just like we pretend we figured out the tortoise/hare algorithm for finding loops in linked lists at interviews.
- jancsika 5y ago
  Maybe if you were a mid-19th Century German composer it worked something like that. But that's just not how most songwriting works. E.g., according to Mark Ronson: 1. Amy Winehouse casually spoke the following sentence in a conversation with Mark Ronson: "They tried to make me go to Rehab but I said, 'No, no, no.'" 2. Mark Ronson said, "That could be a song." 3. They went to the studio where Amy Winehouse played a 12-bar blues chord progression on the guitar and sang those lyrics (using a simple pentatonic scale). 4. Mark suggested to speed it up and do a throwback Motown-era arrangement. 5. Done. Unless they recorded their entire conversation, all you'd get is Winehouse sitting down with a guitar and singing the entire hook of the song. If anything, anxiety-fueled "song formation" recordings will just cause songwriters to waste time going in the wrong direction. That is, they'll take their ready-to-go phrases or sub-phrases of music and sing fragments into the mic, in an order that seems as if they are constructing what they already have formed in their ear. Edit: clarification
vasco 5y ago
It discourages the ones suing because they'll be less sure they'll win.

mbreese 5y ago

I think the key is the progression. If you see how a melody is formed, then it’s more likely to be organic. If you are just copying something, there is less of a progression as when you’re video recording, it’s already almost “done”.

lordnacho 5y ago
That doesn't answer the question. You could be out buying groceries, hear a good tune, and then pretend you invented it in steps when you get back to your studio. Just like we pretend we figured out the tortoise/hare algorithm for finding loops in linked lists at interviews.
jancsika 5y ago
Maybe if you were a mid-19th Century German composer it worked something like that. But that's just not how most songwriting works. E.g., according to Mark Ronson: 1. Amy Winehouse casually spoke the following sentence in a conversation with Mark Ronson: "They tried to make me go to Rehab but I said, 'No, no, no.'" 2. Mark Ronson said, "That could be a song." 3. They went to the studio where Amy Winehouse played a 12-bar blues chord progression on the guitar and sang those lyrics (using a simple pentatonic scale). 4. Mark suggested to speed it up and do a throwback Motown-era arrangement. 5. Done. Unless they recorded their entire conversation, all you'd get is Winehouse sitting down with a guitar and singing the entire hook of the song. If anything, anxiety-fueled "song formation" recordings will just cause songwriters to waste time going in the wrong direction. That is, they'll take their ready-to-go phrases or sub-phrases of music and sing fragments into the mic, in an order that seems as if they are constructing what they already have formed in their ear. Edit: clarification

vasco 5y ago

It discourages the ones suing because they'll be less sure they'll win.