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Originally Posted by PR_Glen
you are reaching... every baseline is almost identical.. there hasn't been an original baseline since bootsy...
If that is the same than every single reggae song in history is also a rip off.
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First, I'm going to spell this shit correctly myself before I continue.
Bass.
There!
No, every bass guitar line is not almost identical; that's nonsense.
But in general a bass line is not protected many times because it is part of a genre.
The genre in question here is, depending on who you ask, pop/dance/R&B.
However none of those genres are associated with a particular bass line.
Now consider "12 Bar Blues"; the bass line is not protected because it defines the genre and it has a historical precedent as it was used freely without challenge.
None of that applies to Marvin Gaye's song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPVbWjrU_Zs
The 12 bar progression like in Chuck Berry's "Johnny Be Good" is another example of a
genre being established through a history of free use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFo8-JqzSCM