Is this copyright problem ?

[vercitti]

I just saw a tutorial on doing a track from start to finish main sounds was arp and beautiful key sound which I hear alot in many genres,and another sound elements but I only took the arp and the key sound and started doing my track with my own notes maybe the sound design is quite similar to the tutorial track and the key sound melody that going down every 2 bars also the drums are similar but that's the genre drums "melodic house" it's no thing creative about that it's the same drums in any melodic house track,anything else was my sound design from scratch , so I did the track with different arrangment but I don't know ,I like it. I want to repeat this with other tutorials because it made me doing a track I liked and that doesn't happen everyday
so what do you think ? is this consider cheating in making music or "not original"?

[BertKoor]

No problem.

You are in the stage of following tutorials?
Be happy if other people than your mother are willing to listen to your track by their own initiative. You can worry about copyright when (if) any money starts flowing.

On a serious note: you will find quotes of other music everywhere. We get inspiration from other music, try to mimick synth patches, etc.

[Tricky-Loops]

On a serious note: you will find quotes of other music everywhere. We get inspiration from other music, try to mimick synth patches, etc.

+1

First you have to imitate something, then based on that you can variate and create something new! No matter which hobby you have.

But then on another serious note, even older people who don't live together with their mother anymore, are still watching or reading tutorials sometimes!

Rick Snoman from the "Dance Music Manual" called it "chicken scratching", to analyze and learn from other songs.

[jancivil]

everybody begins by copying, do what you gotta do at this point