Oct 20, 2026 · 1 hr 35 min · 12 segments
John Lennon took a blues guitar riff from a 1961 song by Bobby Parker. Ringo Starr took a 1959 groove by Ray Charles. But it all started with an Afro-Cuban jazz tune by Dizzy Gillespie. Separate songs…
Music Our story is a simple one, about how musicians take ideas from older songs and use them as a starting point for new songs.
The results often blur the lines between being influenced by, borrowing and pilfering, with the new songs being different enough to fall outside the bonds of copyright infringement.
It is not sleight of hand, but more like a musical brewer, bit of this a dash of that stir it all up and voila we have a new song the familiar tale of music creation our song revolves around a guitar riff and a drum groove basically it's blues guitar playing a latin rhythm when musicians put these two elements together they didn't end up with one plus one they ended up with a batch of new songs, building a pathway for genres to follow.
This mix of blues guitar and a Latin groove can sound like this when played by Led Zeppelin.
These riffs and grooves can seem old and new at the same time, and your ears are not deceiving you.
The riff is a guitarist favourite, appropriated by the best in the business, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Dwayne Allman and Carlos Santana, aracholites.
And it's the same with the groove, with drummers Ginger Baker, John Bonham and Ian Pace demonstrating it through their careers.
Organic and infectious, the guitar riff has a blues bass, making it distinctly American.
Blues in North America had slipped to the margins, its stars playing the dives and small clubs with skeleton bands, the local audience having little taste for this traditional, out-of-date genre.
Our music idea falls into the time zone of the British blues revival, where the young hotshots, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, John Mayall and Jimmy Page, the Animals and the Rolling Stones, are the flag bearers for the blues and its origins.
A lot of the music came by sea, brought over by sailors docking into seaports like Liverpool, where the locals were hungry for any music that wasn't British.
The imported American blues influenced a lot of the local bands, including an unsigned combo with an unstable lineup who included it in their set list for their cabin club and Hamburg gigs.
Music Our story is a simple one, about how musicians take ideas from older songs and use them as a starting point for new songs.
The results often blur the lines between being influenced by, borrowing and pilfering, with the new songs being different enough to fall outside the bonds of copyright infringement.
It is not sleight of hand, but more like a musical brewer, bit of this a dash of that stir it all up and voila we have a new song the familiar tale of music creation our song revolves around a guitar riff and a drum groove basically it's blues guitar playing a latin rhythm when musicians put these two elements together they didn't end up with one plus one they ended up with a batch of new songs, building a pathway for genres to follow.
This mix of blues guitar and a Latin groove can sound like this when played by Led Zeppelin.
These riffs and grooves can seem old and new at the same time, and your ears are not deceiving you.
The riff is a guitarist favourite, appropriated by the best in the business, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Dwayne Allman and Carlos Santana, aracholites.
And it's the same with the groove, with drummers Ginger Baker, John Bonham and Ian Pace demonstrating it through their careers.
Organic and infectious, the guitar riff has a blues bass, making it distinctly American.
Blues in North America had slipped to the margins, its stars playing the dives and small clubs with skeleton bands, the local audience having little taste for this traditional, out-of-date genre.
Our music idea falls into the time zone of the British blues revival, where the young hotshots, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, John Mayall and Jimmy Page, the Animals and the Rolling Stones, are the flag bearers for the blues and its origins.
A lot of the music came by sea, brought over by sailors docking into seaports like Liverpool, where the locals were hungry for any music that wasn't British.
The imported American blues influenced a lot of the local bands, including an unsigned combo with an unstable lineup who included it in their set list for their cabin club and Hamburg gigs.
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