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In Reply to: RE: Mindless didja know . . . posted by M. Lucky on June 04, 2008 at 10:39:48

Actually, I think my example serves here, too: there's nothin' new under the sun.
"Invented" the disco beat? It is to laugh. Nobody did. Folks took soul, funk, rock, and R&B grooves and took them somewhere else.
Buddy Rich was always asked who his main influences were. His answer was always the same: "I've been influenced by every drummer I ever heard." (Word has it, btw, that he could do a killer John Bonham imitation.)
So it goes. Rappers sample Clyde Stubbelfield and Jabo Starks' grooves--they were the longest-serving drummers in James Brown's band--incessantly.
This, to me, is the one of the marks of a serious musician. Before real innovation can occur you must study, and master, what went before. This is why composition students still practice writing fugues even though they may never write one in earnest.
Otherwise you're always reinventing the wheel while deluding yourself into thinking you've come up with something new.

Edits: 06/04/08

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