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November 24, 2019 at 10:03 pm #151119
Maybe this performer (Curtis McLeod) is an ActiveMelody member? I’m not sure. But I am sure that most – if not all – of these licks were harvested from Brian’s lessons, and there is no credit given to Brian. I sometimes post original compositions on Youtube, but if I use any of Brian’s licks, ideas, or techniques, I give credit where credit is due.
Sunjamr Steve
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November 25, 2019 at 5:04 am #151123
I don’t know, Steve, those are pretty standard “blues in E” moves that people have borrowed and passed on over the years, just as Brian has done. I think it would be hard to call that plagiarism. Certainly not as blatant as the last example.
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November 25, 2019 at 6:39 am #151126
I was wondering the same thing, that guy is doing standard “blues” think the word for today is “Genre”
Before there were online guitar tutorial sites before there was the internet there was the guitar and books for musicians from bluegrass to jazz etc.
So much have the times changed and now we have new high speed processing computers to transfer data from smart phone tablet devices to main frame data cloud storage on and on
AIN’T NOTHING UNDER THE sun that hasn’t been done Sunjamr Steve
Think Brian reiterated this many times in his intro videos.. share what we enjoy, so we can reach our goals to become versatile guitar players and possibly even reach the skill level of that performer you copied and pasted here
I think I found my choice yesterday sifting through the non accompaniment lessons have a few I really like ep081 is so cool but not sure if it is “blues” yet .. let book open my “blues book” and double check lol
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November 25, 2019 at 6:55 am #151128
Nothing there that I can hear which sounds like any of Brian’s lessons, classic blues licks that can be heard in thousands of blues numbers.
..Billy..
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November 25, 2019 at 7:05 am #151130
Further to what’s already been voiced, I think the main difference between this artist and the previous two plagiarists is that they both had an agenda and were promoting their own guitar tuitional websites while playing ‘virtually identical’ licks and phrases to ActiveMelody Lessons
Richard
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November 25, 2019 at 8:08 am #151133
Steve,
Sounds like a very well played generic delta blues in E. If it were to remind me of someone, I would go to Clapton. Of course if you talk Clapton, you are really talking about Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy and others. Licks are like words, everyone uses them and recycles them. Few of them are actually original.
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November 25, 2019 at 1:12 pm #151141
His baseline beat is identical to EP065 and EP066. Then his lick from 0:30-0:38 is almost 100% identical to EP065 0:37-0:44. His lick from 0:54-0:60 is identical to EP065 0:27-0:34. His lick from 0:99-1:03 is identical to 0:09-0:13 in EP066. His lick at 1:12-1:20 is identical to EP066 0:22-0:27. His lick at 1:33-1:50 is identical to EP066 0:43-0:59 (which is the last lick in the lesson). I could go on and on. The point is, what he has done is to mix up the licks from EP065 and EP066, swapping them around and adding a few of his own. I know both those lessons very well, and I can tell where he jumps from one lesson to the other. The odds of him playing pretty much all the licks from EP065 and EP066, but in a different order, is extremely low. He stops plagiarizing the EP065 and EP066 licks at 1:52 in his video, which – incidentally – is equal to the combined length of EP065 and EP066.
You can do this same sort of thing yourself with the Muddy Waters lessons. Just mix up the licks from one to the other, and apparently everyone will think you’ve created an original piece.
Sunjamr Steve
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November 25, 2019 at 1:17 pm #151142
i think this guy’s just playing for the love it; he’s not looking to make a buck, and as for his licks, we’re all plagiarizing all the time, he’s just dipping into the same old well. If he sounds like Brian it’s because he’s playing so well.
it’s the people who try to monetize other folk’s work that’s wrong; but this guy seems ok to me: -
November 25, 2019 at 1:45 pm #151144
It has been a tradition to steal, I mean borrow, blues licks and songs for generations of blues players. Steal them, improve them, and put your own stamp on them. That’s the evolution of the blues.
Unless this guy is trying to monetize his recording, I don’t see any problem with it.
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November 26, 2019 at 5:12 am #151204
I see no problem, really. If it really is, then hats off to that guy, he paid attention. Secondly, so what? Think of it this way.. If it was intended for Brian to prevent that, then Brian would have to take legal recourse AND that would be his entire customer base. Shoot that cash cow, if you would.
I plan to steal all these licks soon as my peddle arrives.. LOL (ordered it just recently)
Don't practice till you get it right, practice till you can't get it wrong.
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November 26, 2019 at 5:43 am #151207
Spine tingling sounds going on there,
..Billy..
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November 26, 2019 at 6:43 pm #151254
Man that is all Jimmy Hendrix! And the pedal too! lol
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November 26, 2019 at 11:05 pm #151258
That RJ sells a lot of pedals. I bought a billionare pride of texas gain pedal after hearing him demo it. Great pedal.
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December 8, 2019 at 6:21 am #152697
There’s no argument, Sunjamr’s spot on, this guy has ripped off EP065 and EP066 lick for lick and the underlying rhythm with it. If you disagree then you have not learnt these two lessons.
Jonathan Amos, Matsuyama, Japan
The farther one travels the less one knows.
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January 1, 2020 at 8:05 pm #155097
We are doing fine sharing anything with music..no body is ripping off anybody else..just play enjoy LoL
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January 22, 2020 at 8:11 am #157962
Hi guys!
I recognize clearly EP-65 and 66 and something else, maybe this guy https://youtu.be/tnEsEZS9020, maybe Brian´s.
He´s probably not an AM member, take a look at the shape of he´s fingers, we don´t have such a professionals.
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January 22, 2020 at 9:21 am #157966
Hi guys!
I recognize clearly EP-65 and 66 and something else, maybe this guy https://youtu.be/tnEsEZS9020, maybe Brian´s.
He´s probably not an AM member, take a look at the shape of he´s fingers, we don´t have such a professionals.
Lights.That’s Daddy stovepipe, he has been doing blues lessons for years now.
..Billy..
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January 22, 2020 at 11:18 am #157967
I won‘t even start buying pedals, at least not any time soon, but this Unicorn jhs sure makes the guitar sound good.
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January 22, 2020 at 7:56 pm #157976
Hi guys!
I recognize clearly EP-65 and 66 and something else, maybe this guy https://youtu.be/tnEsEZS9020, maybe Brian´s.
He´s probably not an AM member, take a look at the shape of he´s fingers, we don´t have such a professionals.
Lights.Daddy good pipe, he sure can play. He’s been around for some time on the net.
The melody of the notes is what expresses the art of music . 🙂 6stringerPete
It really is all about ”melody”. The melody comes from a language from our heart. Our heart is the muscle in music harmony. The melody is the sweetness that it pumps into our musical thoughts on the fretboard. 🙂 6 stringer Pete
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January 24, 2020 at 4:54 am #158034
Daddy Good Pipe’s smokin hot
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