Please, Satriani and Van Halen dont sound anything alike and have completely different styles lol. Thats like saying Robert Johnson ripped off Chuck Berry, do you even know the difference between a fender and an ibanez or at least what they are lol? Maybe Madonna copied Chopin too lmao.
As a musician myself I must say yes there are only so many notes in a scale, 7 tones, 12 half tones to be exact( two notes B and E have no sharps for those of you who wonder how I can arrive at 12 doubling 7 )BUT and its a wide but here, using those you can create an incredible amount of different melodies because a melody isnt one single note but a wide array of notes and silences etc And frankly when you listen to both the pieces its way too close to be coincidence in my opinion. The one big point where I have a huge problem with COldplay and which has definitely convinced me to regard them as unworthy of ever listening to is the fact that they chose to ignore mr. Satriani when he brought it up, as a fellow artist he was at the very least entitled to RESPECT and a cordial and honest response from these guys and they just wanted to blow it off and blow HIM off. That is not acceptable and I will never support Coldplay or accept to even hear their music in the future, Mr. Satriani has been a huge inspiration to me and still is, and I find their attitude inapropriate. When a legend has worked so hard for so long creating masterpiece after masterpiece and he tells you he needs to talk to you about the piece you stole from him, the least you could do is listen and try to come to a mutal accomodation which Im sure is all Mr. Satriani asked for in the first place.
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Please, Satriani and Van Halen dont sound anything alike and have completely different styles lol. Thats like saying Robert Johnson ripped off Chuck Berry, do you even know the difference between a fender and an ibanez or at least what they are lol? Maybe Madonna copied Chopin too lmao.
As a musician myself I must say yes there are only so many notes in a scale, 7 tones, 12 half tones to be exact( two notes B and E have no sharps for those of you who wonder how I can arrive at 12 doubling 7 )BUT and its a wide but here, using those you can create an incredible amount of different melodies because a melody isnt one single note but a wide array of notes and silences etc And frankly when you listen to both the pieces its way too close to be coincidence in my opinion. The one big point where I have a huge problem with COldplay and which has definitely convinced me to regard them as unworthy of ever listening to is the fact that they chose to ignore mr. Satriani when he brought it up, as a fellow artist he was at the very least entitled to RESPECT and a cordial and honest response from these guys and they just wanted to blow it off and blow HIM off. That is not acceptable and I will never support Coldplay or accept to even hear their music in the future, Mr. Satriani has been a huge inspiration to me and still is, and I find their attitude inapropriate. When a legend has worked so hard for so long creating masterpiece after masterpiece and he tells you he needs to talk to you about the piece you stole from him, the least you could do is listen and try to come to a mutal accomodation which Im sure is all Mr. Satriani asked for in the first place.