Can the melody of my music already exist before i created it?

[Tricky-Loops]

What song is this:
http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/94942510/file.html

Reverse engineering?

[Jedinhopy]

What song is this:
http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/94942510/file.html

Reverse engineering?

I need to know the name of the song so that i can listen to it in higher sound quality.

[OzWozEre]

It happens with some of my songs.
For example i create a bass melody. And i never share that song. No one will hear my compositions. And then when i listen to new music i can hear that they stole the bass melody from my imagination.



The music i create should not use melodies and chords from other songs.
Accidents happen unconsciously. I hate doing recreations of existing songs.

Inspiration = Stealing

Madonna's Like a Virgin has the same exact bassline as MJ's Billie Jean... so much so that she did a cover of it back in the days on her Like a Virgin tour

If you think she "stole" that or Nile Roger is some musical hack, then you'd be mistaken.

In fact so many chord progressions and bass lines are so common and are standards that it's pretty darn impossible to always have something original.

But that's not the point, if you're focusing on individual elements and motifs and __not__ the full and final composition, you're doing it wrong.

It's all about the arrangement & lyrics yo!

[vurt]

@ Oz - i think you missed the bit where we decided it was either time travel or voodoo.

[Sendy]

The basslines are similar but 'billie jean' has more notes in it, a similar rhythm, yet different inflection: Gb Eb Db vs. Gb E Db B

It's the similarity of the rhythm/phrasing that really invites comparison: Strong weak weak Strong weak weak weak weak

[osiris]

I feel a mashup coming on....

[4damind]

It will not be so easy to find a bass line, melody or a chord progression which was never used before. The idea is more that the whole "bundle" sounds different enough so that other people find it new and interesting and having a pleasure to listen.
It's more important to develop a "signature sound" or a own style to differ from other artists

[jancivil]

Yeah, if you want a three or four note pentatonic riff in that catchy manner in that area of dance rhythm to replace the last instantly accessible three or four note repeating pentatonic riff-based number in the charts, your chances of novelty are not high. I don't think you want too much novelty. I don't know what jedinhopy wants but I believe that his exposure to tunes is limited along these lines, and the happenstance of finding 'his' riff was done by someone before belongs with that.


But, if you venture outside that little box some, you'll find that the possiblities open up accordingly. Whether or not you want it to open up is another matter, but *music* itself is not as confined as this kind of material suggests to you.

[ontol]

This actually happens to me all the time.

Several well-known recording artists have pre-ripped off my work for years, often recording things and releasing them well before before I actually come up with the idea.

examples include; My Bloody Valentine, NIN, Boards of Canada, as well as one of the most egregious pre-stealing artists of my work, Justin Bieber. Well, he can probably keep those ideas.

[OzWozEre]

@ Oz - i think you missed the bit where we decided it was either time travel or voodoo.

I think I missed that bit

I feel a mashup coming on....

There will never be a mashup greater than Doctor Pressure!

[Jedinhopy]

What song is this:
http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/94942510/file.html

What's the real name of this song?

[sebaden]

What song is this:
http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/94942510/file.html

What's the real name of this song?

The music i create should not use melodies and chords from other songs.

listening to this "song" i would say that you nailed it.

[vurt]

What song is this:
http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/94942510/file.html

What's the real name of this song?

you should ask whoever uploaded it.
cool track. could be longer thoughmaybe this is just the intro?

[Jedinhopy]

What song is this:
http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/94942510/file.html

What's the real name of this song?

you should ask whoever uploaded it.
cool track. could be longer thoughmaybe this is just the intro?

I remember it comes from a movie.

[whyterabbyt]

What song is this:
http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/94942510/file.html

What's the real name of this song?

you should ask whoever uploaded it.
cool track. could be longer thoughmaybe this is just the intro?

I remember it comes from a movie.

and how did you obtain this movie track when you dont know what it is?