http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/01/30/the-lick/ Let's just see what happens Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/01/30/the-lick/comment-page-1/#comment-72768 Terry Elliott Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:32:22 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=11491#comment-72768 I teach freshman comp and I will use this to highlight the idea of writing templates. I use Gerald Graff’s They Say, I Say as my text and this fits perfectly with the idea that licks (templates) are not uncreative. In fact, licks and riffs are the basis of improvisation. Although it seems paradoxical that a template is the basis for creativity, I think this goes a way towards showing that the contradiction can be resolved. Thanks for the link.

]]> http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/01/30/the-lick/comment-page-1/#comment-72761 Chris Lydon Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:30:07 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=11491#comment-72761 My question to Dave was probably too obvious: So who owns “The Lick”? Who owns music? Who owns 4/4 time? Who owns the flatted-fifth chord? Who owns the Bill Evans piano voicings? Who owns Count Basie’s swing rhythms? I hear this fascinating compilation as a nail (don’t I wish!) in the coffin of “intellectual property.”

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