I have mixed feelings about a select few record companies. As I am sure many of you know since Napster has come along, the music industry has changed. I was reading an article about a record company going after Tim Gilberg & David Taub, the founders of
NextLevelGuitar.com. They are known for there creative yet simple methods of teaching you how to play the guitar by teaching you many radio hits. They have used the power of
youtube.com and have become very popular.
The article I read was from http://www.guitar-stuff.net basically what it comes down to, is a record company is try to take them to court because the songs they are teaching are copied righted.
If you take a step back and think about it, there are 7 notes in the musical scale. There are a ton of musicians out there with several songs. How many times can you play the notes in a different order? I am not a math wiz but I know that they can not play in to many different orders. That means that several artists have used the same cord patterns in several songs.
Now this record company is try to take them to court over a few different cord patterns. Saying the artist owns that progression. They are not even teaching you the lyrics of the song. Just how to play the cords.
I feel that these music companies are loosing money due to the internet and other methods of sharing music, but instead of trying to find a new way to market there product they are taking the lazy way out and trying to sue any one that has anything associated with there product.
Let's take another step back and look at RadioHead. They said screw the record company and let's look at a new method of marketing are music. They said you pay what you think the music is worth. Last time I checked they sold over 1.3 million copies at an average of 8 dollars an album. I will tell you what; I would rather pay 15 dollars a cd if I know that the money was going to the artist instead of paying 7 dollars at my local wal-mart and knowing that maybe a dollar is going to the artist. I am tied of these lazy record companies and how the screw over the artist. I am aware that these companies spend a lot of time and resources marketing for different bands. In the end if you make a good song it draws in the listeners.
What makes this radiohead story so great is not only do they still own all the rights to there music but they also are making all the money off there songs.
Where do you stand on this? Should the record Companies be doing what they are? Did Tim Gilberg and David Taub do anything wrong by teaching you how to play these different cords in a specific pattern? Please give us your Feedback!