>sing a melody >ask 4chan user to record accompanying instrument

50%
1melody + 1instrumental / 2people = 0.5 = 50%

>>72925412
90%
Dumb ideas guy poster.

>>72925541
No.

Even if the instrument guy wrote the arrangement, all he'd get in the industry was a flat fee or something.

The money is in the creative part of the process: the melody.
You don't get writer credits for finding the chords to a melody.

>>72925561
>You don't get writer credits for finding the chords to a melody.
yes you do.
Music and lyrics are split 50-50
Chords and arrangement count as the music.

>>72925577
>Chords and arrangement count as the music.
No, the melody does.

Quincy Jones for instance never got writing credits for laying down MJ's tracks, he got production credits (i.e. a flat rate sum per track or hour).

You're thinking of composition, but that's 99% melody.

>>72925596
No you stupid faggot, writing the music means writing the music, you are a writer, you get a writing credit and you get royalties that a songrwriter would get because you wrote it.

Quincy doesn't get songwriting royalties because he didn't write any of the music, including chords.

>>72925665
>If you wrote the LYRICS and the MELODY, you are the sole writer of the songs.
>Words and Music are the two “non-negotiables” in any copyright.
>The other two elements of songs — the HARMONY and RHYTHM — are matters of arrangement.

https://franklin.thefuntimesguide.com/tips_for_writing_songs/

>>72925677
>A quote by some random old hag
oh, yeah, ok.

>>72925733
First thing in google.

Find anything to the contrary.

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>>72925747
If you were right, all songs would be only credited to Plant

>>72925790
Why? Because he's the singer?