History Main / ArtisticLicenseMusic

* There is also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwNUIt5Hc0Y this little gem]] thanks to Music/{{Nirvana}}. They clearly just don't care.

Generally a musical trope of they DidNotDoTheResearch. To people not familiar with music, it doesn't bother, likely because it's not relevant to the plot, but to musicians it's obvious. It also mostly applies to instrumental music, because not everyone knows the technical skills and what it looks like to play an instrument, and instruments can be easily substituted in on the soundtrack because of the uniformity of sound. Guitars sound much more like each other than voices do.

* ''DidNotDoTheResearch'' - the "banjo boy" character is "Deliverance" is clearly NOT playing the banjo part of "Duelling Banjos", which in turn is obviously being played on a resonator banjo. Both the banjo AND the guitar have capos, which would not be required for playing in G

* The sound of Roger's acoustic guitar in ''{{RENT}}'' is obviously an electric guitar being played offstage.

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* ''LooneyTunes'' has this to the level where [[TheyJustDidntCare they]] ''[[TheyJustDidntCare obviously]]'' [[TheyJustDidntCare just did not care]]. There is nothing even remotely accurate about the way any of the characters play any musical instrument. But then, they weren't trying - RuleOfFunny is the single most important element of ''LooneyTunes'' shorts.

* In ''StarTrekTheWrathOfKhan'', at the end, when AmazingFreakingGrace is played, James Doohan's fingers do not match the notes being played. For anyone familiar with the bagpipes, this is very, ''very'' obvious, but hardly a drama-breaker.

So, you're watching this show where someone appears to be TheCastShowoff, then you notice that their hands aren't matching the notes at all. Sometimes, to the point where [[TheyJustDidntCare they didn't even try]]. Or, perhaps someone is talking about music and it turns out it's just musical TechnoBabble.

Generally a musical trope of they DidNotDoTheResearch. To people not familiar with music, it doesn't bother, likely because it's not relevant to the plot, but to musicians it's obvious. It also mostly applies to instrumental music, because not everyone knows the technical skills and what it looks like to play an instrument, and instruments can be easily substituted in on the soundtrack because of the uniformity of sound. Guitars sound much more like each other than voices do.

Note: Lip-synching does not apply here, because most people know how to lip synch, and music videos [[MilliVanilli almost always]] are the voices of the artist.

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** Of course, that is not the point of the movie, but to show that his real "Opus" was the impact on his students as a teacher, not his ability to compose. And to show the importance of music education. Even Kamen's foundation he founded after the film was about education, not composing music.
** Some musicians don't like the fact that Mr. Holland [[TheSouthpaw conducts left-handed]], but they definitely do exist.

* ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': In the scene where Eddie Valiant is mingling with the toons at Maroon Studios, he comes across a saxophonist standing next to the enchanted brooms from ''{{Fantasia}}''. However, the saxophonist isn't doing anything else besides just swaying his body while playing the saxophone. The thing is, he isn't even moving his fingers while he was playing the saxophone.

* In the film version of [[GhostWorld Ghost World]], the actor portraying the guitarist/singer of Blueshammer has never played a guitar in his life.

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* Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love". Some people criticized the video because the "musicians" (portrayed by fashion models) were not correctly playing their guitars. {{VH1}}'s "PopUpVideo" said that a musician was hired to teach the models basic guitar fingering techniques, but "gave up after about an hour and left".
* The music video for "If I Die Young" by The Band Perry has one of the band members playing an accordion. Even the least musically-inclined person can tell there's no accordion in the song (it's a ballad; why would they even use one?).

* And in the video for The Bellamy Brothers' "Old Hippie (The Sequel)", one of them is strumming a resonator guitar in the video. This is doubly wrong; besides the complete lack of said instrument in the song, resonator guitars are usually played horizontally (like a lap steel guitar) or finger-picked, not strummed.

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* ''LooneyTunes'' has this to the level where [[TheyJustDidntCare they]] ''[[TheyJustDidntCare obviously]]'' [[TheyJustDidntCare just did not care]]. There is nothing even remotely accurate about the way any of the characters play any musical instrument. But then, they weren't trying - RuleOfFunny is the single most important element of ''LooneyTunes'' shorts.

* ''AugustRush'': Electric guitars without amps, a so-so composition that gets him into Juilliard without the audition process, his skill on guitar. Generally the movie did not play well with musicians.

* Averted in [[MasterAndCommander:TheFarSideOfTheWorld]]. Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany took lessons on the violin and cello, respectively, so that they would at least appear to have some experience. When the scene was filmed, they played along with the recording which would be dubbed over for the finished product. Both turned out to be decent musicians anyway, particularly Bettany. In fact, the artificially polished performance of the film made the characters better musicians then their literary counterparts. In the novels, both men are little more than enthusiastic amateurs, rather than Regency-era versions of Yo Yo Ma.
* Dooley Wilson, who played Sam in ''[[Casablanca]]'', was a drummer, not a pianist. It's fairly obvious.

* There is also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwNUIt5Hc0Y this little gem]] thanks to {{Nirvana}}. They clearly just don't care.

* In ''{{Degrassi}}'', a music class is shown with both a cello and a trumpet. High school orchestras rarely have woodwind instruments in them.

* ''{{Drumline}}'': The printed music that comes out of a snare drum solo in the middle of the movie has sharps and flats (as it's a percussive instrument, there is no key signature the instrument can follow).

* ''ParksAndRecreation'': Leslie is listening to bluegrass music, and the banjo is MIDI. It could be a case of Leslie not being able to distinguish real instruments from MIDI, but most $1.00 [=CDs=] you can get at a gas station have real instruments.

* In performances of ''{{You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown}}'', Schroeder's miniature piano is obviously fake, and an orchestra piano is what's actually playing; some of the notes aren't even possible on a piano the size of his.

* An episode of ''{{Bones}}'' has Dr. Brennan claiming that by knowing how to play the akonting (a West-African 3 stringed, non-fretted lute), she could play blues-style electric guitar. While the writers were trying to ShowTheirWork by knowing what an akonting is, the instruments are so distant in style, culture, structure, and tuning to pull that off.

* In performances of ''You'reAGoodManCharlieBrown'', Schroeder's miniature piano is obviously fake, and an orchestra piano is what's actually playing; some of the notes aren't even possible on a piano the size of his.

* In performances of ''YoureAGoodManCharlieBrown'', Schroeder's miniature piano is obviously fake, and an orchestra piano is what's actually playing; some of the notes aren't even possible on a piano the size of his.