As Nickelback’s Rockstar moves through chords that are borrowed from the parallel minor key, the melody in-kind moves over to that key’s scale-tones, so the notes that give the songs most of their character, respectively - the “high-value notes” as I often say - these will tend to be dissimilar.īack to the lyrical themes? Yes, there’s are similarities. Go back through to what we said about the harmonic structure of both songs. I’m not interested in critical listening again to even try to hear what might be there, as it’s late on a Friday in the middle of shelter-in-place on the warmest day so far this year and my office is way too hot to stay in here any longer than I need to - but if I remember correctly from the first listen, anyone with a one-octave range could sing the entirety of both tracks. So I’d say not “substantial portions of the harmonic structures.” The most simple way to describe “borrowed” is that while Nickelback’s “Rockstar” is in the key of G major, its chord progressions are almost constantly employing (borrowing) chords that would more naturally be found in the parallel key of G minor. It happens to rely quite a bit on “borrowed chords ” a common device in rock music. Nickelback’s chord progression is fairly basic too, but it bears little resemblance to the plaintiff’s. “Substantial portions of the harmonic structures?” The harmonic structure of Johnston’s “Rock Star” is that of an 8-bar blues song! And it’s the sort of thing you might hear referred to as “Three-Chord Rock.” So you might surmise, we’re talking super-duper common chord progressions. The form of plaintiff Johnston’s “Rock Star” is an 8-bar blues not remotely a novel form. “Substantial portions of the song form?” Here too, even if the entirety of the songs’ forms were identical, the form, like tempo, is just not where you want to hang your hat unless you’ve employed a pretty novel form. You can sing Mary Had A Little Lamb quickly or slowly and it remains Mary Had A Little Lamb. Even if the two songs share the entirety of the tempo, we don’t much care. It’s the more humorous interpretation.) A bad place to start. It begins with “substantial portions of the tempo.” (Or kinda says that. In charitable goodheartedness, let’s just look specifically for the similarities named in the complaint.
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