13 Songs that Interpolate other songs

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on HDpiano.com Interpolation is when you take part of an existing composition and use it as part of a new piece of music, for example Arianda Grande's Seven Rings Interpolates The Melody of my favorite things about The Sound of Music getting into trouble cream ponies and crisp apples walking on bells and sleigh bells and schnit with noodles my stuff but Seven Rings isn't a cover of my favorite things, it's a new song based on an excerpt Of my favorite things, a similar example is playing that song on a train that

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s the main melody of Hogi Carmichel's 1938 song, Heart and Soul, playing that song, the one that makes me go all night, heart and soul.

I fell in love with you and beyond the obvious style. The train changes have configured the old melody with new chords and new lyrics, so here, with Arand De Grande's playing that song on train and seven rings, they are reusing an existing melody, they are interpolating an existing melody into a song completely new, but interpolation is not possible. limited to Melody only, you can also

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the accompaniment of an older song, for example, Amy wi House's 2007 song Tears Dry alone interpolates the instrumental of the mtown classic There's No Mountain High Enough originally performed by Marvin Gay and Tammy Terrell. we know andret our God there is no valley There is no river wi baby a very famous example of interpolation is Kio's 1995 song Gangsters Paradise, which interpolates Stevie W's 1976 song Pastime Paradise.

They have been spending most of their lives Living in a paradise of time past, why are we so blind to see? Tell me who's live now listening to those two tracks back to back. You may have described Gangster's Paradise as based on a sample, but no, this is interpolation, not sampling, so what's the difference because these two techniques are certainly very similar, well, sampling is when we take a literal sample from the original recording and use it as part of a new track, but the interpolation does not involve the recording, but the composition itself. Interpolation is like a cover of a song, but it is a very adapted version of the song, instead of taking an excerpt from the recording as we do with sampling interpolation, it involves taking an excerpt from the original composition of the song same, so here, with Gangster's Paradise, although it sounds very similar to the original Stevie W song, all the instrumentation has been re-recorded what we are hearing is an interpolation of the underlying composition.

A similar example is Sugar Hill Gang's Rappers Delight, which is based on Sheik's song Good Times I am one my like to sing hello, it's easy to assume that What we're hearing here on Rappers Delight is a direct sample from the recording Chic's original, but in fact, Suar Hill Gang is finishing up a good times re-recording, so this is an interpolation, not a sample, now you might be wondering with everything. In these examples of interpolation, does the original songwriter get credit and royalties when his song is interpolated into a new song and the answer is yes or at least they should be?

With all the examples we have seen so far the original composers have been included. as songwriters of the new song with Rapper's Delight, although the threat of legal action was necessary to properly credit the original songwriters, Sugar Hill Gang only added Sheik's Nar Rogers and Bernard Edwards to the song's credits when Sheik threatened to take them out. Even if the interpolation is very brief, very fleeting record labels and publishers will tend to credit the composer of the interpolated song to avoid future legal repercussions, for example, We Belong Together by Mariah KY features this brief quote from the song by Bobby wac If You Think.

You're Lonely Now despite being just two bars of Melody taken from Bobby Wac's song. The composers of that Bobby wac song are all credited on We Belong Together; In fact, We Belong Together features an

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even shorter melodic quote, this time from the 1987 song. two times by the agreement I'm Just Thinking About You and once again the composers of two times have been credited on We Belong Together. The clever thing about these interpolations is that they are literally soundtracking what happens in the story of the lyrics in the lyrics that the protagonist is listening to. to the radio and we hear quotes from the

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she listens to on the radio, for example the quote from Bobby WX's song continues with Bobby WX's lyrics on the radio saying Me If You Think You're Lonely Now and then Once again in the next step I turn the dial trying to take a break and then I listen to Baby Face before I hear the quote of two occasions and only Baby Face was a member of the band The Deal who performed twice on many occasions .

In my videos I use notation scores to illustrate what I'm talking about, but you don't have to be able to read notation to be a great musician, and in fact, for the first five or six years of my career as a pianist I didn't. He knows how to read sheet music and would instead learn songs using YouTube tutorials, including HD piano ones. The HD Piano presents songs in this beautifully visualized format, making it easy to learn the songs without any knowledge of sheet music. They have a huge library of songs that actually includes many of the songs we talked about in today's video, so if you want to learn new songs on the piano and support this channel at the same time, follow the link below to check out piano in HD and see if you can guess which indie rock song from 2000. has been interpolated into this track which was the song Lasting Love by sagala and James Arthur and interpolates the synth melody from The Track Time to Pretend by MGMT The hit song Gwen Stefani's 2004 Rich Girl interpolates an excerpt of Melody from If I Were a Rich Man from the 1964 musical FID on the roof girl I see I everyone If I were a rich man all day I if I were a rich man but in fact Technically Gwen Stefani did not interpolate Fiddler on the Roof because her song Rich Gal is itself a reworking of a different song with the same title by British duo Luchi L and Mickey W, so it was actually this song that Fiddler interpolated. on the Roof and then Gwen Stefani based her song on this song, a common reason why a song may interpolate an

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song instead of simply sampling is to save costs using a sample from an existing recording usually costs more than simply re-recording That part is because the original recording of the song contains two different copyrights, the copyright of the song you composed and the copyright of the recording, so if you re-record a song instead of sample the original recording, you'll only have to deal with clearing one of those two copyrights - for example, Robbie Williams' 1998 song Millennium was written around the iconic string intro to the James Bond song You Only Live Twice composed by John Barry, Millennium's demo version was based on an actual sample of that Bond theme, but when they realized that re-recording the string intro would reportedly be a tenth of the cost of the license of the original.

On the recording, they chose to do that, instead many Robbie Williams songs feature interpolation, for example his 2000 song Supreme actually features two different interpolations. The song's post-chorus instrumental section interpolates the strings. Melody from Gloria Gain's classic album, I Will Survive, and the main strings. Reason Supreme is based on an excerpt of the theme from the 1970 film Darier Doil Cano. Another example of where an older song has been interpolated, that is, re-recorded rather than sampled to save cost and hassle, is Kaner West's Gold Digger. Gold Digger is based. in an excerpt from the 1954 Ray Charles song I've Got a Woman she me money when I'm she Golding with Nooke initially planned to sample the original Ray Charles record, but then, after seeing the Ray Charles biopic , Ray West had the idea to just ask.

Instead, Jamie Fox, who played Ray Charles in the film, sang the excerpt from I've Got a Woman and could then use it in place of the sample. Rihanna's 2007 song Shut Up and Drive features a very subtle interpolation, the fuzzy octave-jumping riff that underpins the chorus of shut up and drive is actually lifted from 1983's new Classic Blue Monday, oh you know, I'm better than a Li and the last example of interpolation we'll look at today is Boni's 1986 song, You Give Love a Bad Name. the main chorus The melody of the bonjovi song is taken from the song by Bonnie Tyler if you were a woman and I were a man who had dated earlier that same year if you were a woman and I screamed at your heart and you were late Now, this example of interpolation is really interesting because both songs were written by the same person, Desmond Child, so actually this is not an interpolation, it's a rewrite, as Desmond Child explains in this clip after "If You Were a Woman", from Bonny Tyler.

It didn't sell as well as he thought, he decided to effectively rewrite the song for Bon Joi so that the song would have a second chance at success. They were making an album called Faster Than the Speed ​​of Light and Jim Steinman called me and said it was okay. I want a special song, but it really wasn't the hit I wanted because I thought about it. I mean, when I wrote it I was like, "Okay, this is going to be the biggest song of all time, so after that came that album." and I went to work with a couple of long-haired guys from New Jersey named John Bonjovi and Richie Sambora and I kind of wanted you to know that I was a little upset with the record company for not pushing that song and I said, I'm going to show that that song is a hit and that's how we did it, so you wrote it again, so we wrote it again, yes, interestingly, years later, this chorus.

The melody was used in both the Bonny Tyer and Bonjovi songs. Once again it would serve as a chorus. Melody for Another big pop hit is the 2020 song Kings and Queens by AA Max, so interpolation is very similar to sampling, but it's not the same technique. If you can think of other examples of songs that interpolate elements from other songs, mention them below. the comments