What is remixing? Well it’s literally taking something and making it something else re… mixing it.

In the video, Everything is a Remix, the speaker brings up a good point with his first example of early remixes. The same beat has been used in numerous songs, raps, and albums. My own personal example is the artist Cascada. She uses the same beat for every single one of her songs, she just changes around the lyrics and calls it a new song.

Part One: The song remains the same

1961: Coining of the term “heavy metal” and the early remix of taking parts of other books and putting them together to create one book. REMIX!

Led Zepplin used the beats and some of the lyrics from other bands music in their own. They remixed their songs to make it more appealing, they became of of the biggest touring rock bands in Britain.

Must haves for a remix:

Give the original artist credit

Change it enough to make it like the original but better

Part Three: Elements of Creativity

Copying is how we learn, we can’t learn new things until we are fluent in something else.

Bob Dylan’s first album contained 11 cover songs.

No one starts out original, we need to copy to get our own sense of original.