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Solos are usually improv so they're not copyrighted, unless you treat it as an alternate melody. But to be sure, just write everything out.

You can copyright the entire performance of a song though, which I *think* would include the arrangment. For that just send in a clean audio disk of the piece. Hehe. Thanks. Yup, performance can be copywrited, what I meant though is copywriting the melody in and of itself, not neccessarily a solo, and not neccessarily just it's perfroamnce, the actual melody itself.

For instance, Neil Young has his Tell Me Why, which has an inherit melody, as is displayed through the chords and notes he plays. I'm thinking, when he was copywriting his work, assuming he didn't just set it out on an album right away, did he write out the entire guitar part, or actually the melody notes reffered to, which would make it more clear, but possibly less encompassing.]]> Guitar Players Discussion cmaracz https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/quickie-about-finale/#post-89061 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/quickie-about-finale/#post-89047 Thu, 10 Feb 2005 03:16:03 +0000
Solos are usually improv so they're not copyrighted, unless you treat it as an alternate melody. But to be sure, just write everything out.

You can copyright the entire performance of a song though, which I *think* would include the arrangment. For that just send in a clean audio disk of the piece.]]> Guitar Players Discussion DemoEtc https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/quickie-about-finale/#post-89047 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/quickie-about-finale/#post-89034 Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:11:28 +0000
For instance, in Guiatr World acoustic they showed an arrnagement of Silent Night. As well, they posted jdut the melody line that the guitar part conveys. Imagien I came up with Silent Night, everything about it was written by me. Would I tab out the actual guitar line or just the melody notes that are the centre of it?]]> Guitar Players Discussion cmaracz https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/quickie-about-finale/#post-89034 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/quickie-about-finale/#post-88992 Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:00:48 +0000
Like all notation programs, Finale is like a word processor for music. If you didn't put it in, it won't come out.

Now if you're talking about using a MIDI device to play a melody instead of using the keyboard, that just becomes an input device. The result will be the the same (that is, if the melody is the same). If you can play what you want, but don't have the notation skills to write it out rhythmically, use MIDI input. If you have the transcription skills to do keyboard entry of the same thing you'd play, the result will be the same.

Whatever you submit for copyright, well... that's what the copyright covers. If what went into Finale is not exactly what you had in mind, you've copyrighted something you didn't have in mind (and what you did have in mind has not been registered)]]> Guitar Players Discussion NoteBoat https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/quickie-about-finale/#post-88992 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/quickie-about-finale/#post-88963 Wed, 09 Feb 2005 06:05:43 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion cmaracz https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/quickie-about-finale/#post-88963 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/quickie-about-finale/#post-6957 Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:40:55 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion cmaracz https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/quickie-about-finale/#post-6957