guitaristic
prophet of Dave
So you're saying that NO ONE can ever use the same chords as House of the Rising Sun with that arpeggio strum...???
I feel like even with chords there is a limit, because there's other factors besides the chords themselves. Song tempo, duration of each, strum syncopation, arpeggios....quite a lot of stuff factors into it besides just the 3 measly notes. That Spirit song meshes up with Stairway in that sense pretty well if you ask me. It's definitely not gonna be like "well I copyrighted the I-V-vi-IV pattern so screw you all" if the judge rules against Zeppelin. Tons of metrics play into it.