Though the music artists invent aesthetically the music (designing and composition), do they themselves play the instruments or instrument players play the music according to the artist’s composition? And suppose if the hired instrument player creates a better version of the artist’s original composition does the hired instrument player given the credit as well.
Huh? If any ‘ composer’ CAN’T PLAY THE INSTRUMENT THE SONG WAS WRITTEN ON OR FOR… then THEY DIDN’T WRITE THE MUSIC. I’ve seen a lot of PHONIES who copy some obscure piece of music and then try to pass it off as their own.. but WHEN THEY CAN’T PLAY IT.. then I know THEY DIDN’T WRITE IT.
I suspect you don’t really understand how music is composed OR played.
March 7th, 2010 at 7:03 am
coz at the time of edit audio is divided into different layers. Vochal on 1 layer and instrumental on other.
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March 7th, 2010 at 7:23 am
Your question is very clumsily written and I had a great deal of difficulty understanding what on earth you meant. The answer will vary according to the type and genre of music you are talking about. Usually, however, an instrumentalist is given a written-out part for his instrument by the composer. It is the musician’s duty to play this music as well as he/she can according to the composer’s precise instructions in the music.
However, in jazz and other improvised genres, the player will often add his/her own interpretation of a basic guide given to them by the composer, thereby probably deserving some credit for bringing the music ‘alive’.
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March 7th, 2010 at 7:36 am
Huh? If any ‘ composer’ CAN’T PLAY THE INSTRUMENT THE SONG WAS WRITTEN ON OR FOR… then THEY DIDN’T WRITE THE MUSIC. I’ve seen a lot of PHONIES who copy some obscure piece of music and then try to pass it off as their own.. but WHEN THEY CAN’T PLAY IT.. then I know THEY DIDN’T WRITE IT.
I suspect you don’t really understand how music is composed OR played.
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March 7th, 2010 at 8:17 am
Generally, when a musician composes a music, he also creates the chords for it. So the final output of a composer would be the lyrics and the chords or the melody line for the song.
The instruments back up the original melody. So the hired instrument player would merely back up the original melody without disturbing the original melody unless of course, the modified makes much more sense to the original composer. Its up to the composer to have the other guy in the credits list or not.
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Usually, this is the way we do it in our band.
March 7th, 2010 at 8:45 am
The rule is…there are absolutely no rules. In ages past, classical composers would play one or more intstruments, but the composed music for instruments based on their knowledge of the sounds they wanted to hear, and not based necessarily on their own personal performances. Mozart played piano and wrote for piano, strings, voices, small ensembles and all orchestral instrument in the full orchestra. In this type of music, the composer expects the music to be performed exactly as he intended it, even down to the tempo and dynamics.
In today’s setting, a classical composer may still work the way mozart did, or more likely they would use some electronic medium like Finale for writing out their scores. They know the sound the want and not necessarily how to produce that sound on the instrument.
Composers in other musical genre (rock, blues, jazz) tend to write only the melody and chord accompanyment, allowng the musician to choose how it’s actually performed, the tempo, the specific rhythmic patterns, the key, and even the instrumentation. A song written orignnally for piano, will be performed by a band consisting only of guitars of vice versa. The performer gets credit for the performance the composer still gets credit for the song. If a performer comes up with a better version, he gets credit for thet performance. As an example, by 1975 the song "Yesterday" by Lennon and McCartney had been recorded more than 175 times by various artists around the world with a wide range of backgrounds and in different genres from rock, blues, swing, bossa nova, salsa, mambo, tango, gypsy, folk, classical (with full orchestra), muzak and even in different languages (French, German, Spanish). John Lennon and Paul McCartney was credited as the composers in each and every case.
Good question!
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March 7th, 2010 at 9:30 am
You don’t have to play all the instrument to compose. Many young musicians use programs like Cubase & REASON to compose. If you use REASON v4, all the instruments are incorporated so you can lay yyour drum tracks, chords, guitar, piano or whatever and you can hear the playback immediately.
Once you have that patented down, burn it on a CD and get the necessary musican to play the different parts. Write each score individually and if played correctly, it should sound close or better than what you originally written for the simple reason that real musicians add FEELING to it.
A musican gets paid for his work and gets no credit on the composition. But, you add a footnote in the liners stating who played on that particular music. But the copyright stays with yuo unless someone sings and composes the lyrics. Then, they get credit for LYRICS by Joe Blow and MUSIC by XXXX
Good Luck !!
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Berklee Graduate / Luthier & Studio Guitarist