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Except when a hook is approached in two different manners, it could be two totally different hooks.
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Isaac Hayes: Walk On By [Live at Music Scene, 1969] - YouTube
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Tupac - Me Against The World - YouTube
Hey, he really took that hook away and reused it.
From one listening it sounds to me that the (only) sample was from the electric guitar track.
If you're talking about just a few notes like that,
pick up the damn guitar and play it yourself.
If you play it with just one ounce of personal interpretation
and your own guitar and amp sound
it will come out different enough
that it won't be exactly the same thing.
And legally it won't be a sample of someone else
it will be a sample of you.
I'm sorry. I still don't get it.
Why the need to use the sample at all?
Even if the song was inspired by an element of a pre-existing one,
why even use the sample
if it's only gunna cause you to get sued later.
Just make it a completely original work.
Looping chord progressions, and short isolated melodic lines
are hardly anything anyone can claim ownership of.
This is basic music theory in action.
A syncopated repeated melodic whole step
to a ("bent") major third
(as was most of the primary guitar sample)
isolated,
might be an exercise found in a beginners (blues/jazz) lesson book.
So why sample it? Why not just PLAY it.
Then who could say anything about it?
Obviously I'm not hip enough to understand why it must be sampled.
The Tupac song was just FINE on it's own.
I'm sure they could have found someone to break out an electric guitar.
Even I could have played the part,
and guitar is just my second instrument.
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