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When you're writing a song, how do you know it isn't just a song you've heard before but don't recognise? (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 months ago by frostprophet@infosec.pub to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm currently in the process of writing a song. I've got a tune and I'm putting the lyrics together but I'm always concerned that any tune I think of might just be another song I've heard somewhere randomly that I don't remember hearing.

Do I just have a shitty memory or is this a problem that other people have too?

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[–] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

It's normal.

Especially if you're writing in a popular style, tons of musicians just use the same chord progressions over and over .

Once you start layering things on the melody, it's pretty unlikely that it will resemble anything too closely.

As long long as you're just using your own creativity, I think it's very unlikely you'll just clone a song.

If you're really worried about it, you can just change a few notes in the melody on the page in a way that you wouldn't think to sing "naturally"