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Originally Posted by troutman
But every song has its own fingerprint - Shazam can identify songs simply from the sequence of rising and falling notes in a song.
It is true there are only so many notes in a scale - but are there limitless combinations when you alter tempos, rhythms, harmony, dynamics, keys, pitch and timbre?
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Mathematically, yes. When it's up for personal interpretation? No.
There was a great classical composer (name escapes me) who said we will at some point run out of music. He didn't foresee the drum kit, amplified instruments, or modern recording tech however.
The point I was making about personal style though is this. You could take a million drummers and ask them all to hit nothing but a snare. If one of those drummers is Alex VanHalen I will be able to pick him out. So you can play the same thing as someone else, but the individual interpretation aspect changes everything. Is it still the same part or peice? Sure but it sounds completely different.