amen brother

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Stumbled over this video on YouTube the other day. It’s an excellent video about a 6 seconds drum loop/break beat known as the “Amen Break”. Check it out, you might learn something new today.

3 comments to “amen brother”

  1. Comment by Don Spidell:

    Very interesting — Makes me wonder what the smallest unit of music is that one can copyright.

  2. Comment by nils:

    good question, Don. Not sure if there is any specific rules that regulate this. Joey ?

  3. Comment by joey:

    There is some kind of rule about so many notes/bars of a song that can be identical to another song. And yet I think it’s a very gray area as to defining what is for-real plagiarism and what is just acceptable similarity. So many songs have the same chord progressions and drum rhythms, so I don’t know how or why the copyright does or doesn’t get enforced in certain circumstances.

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