Composing songs
- Thread starter Cloudsky
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Listen to as many songs from as many styles as you can.
Then let your friends (honest ones) listen to the songs.
Drop the ego, ask them if it sounds like any other song.
If it does, ask them to point the part that's similar to them.
From this point on, it is up to YOU
Many successful songs sound like some other song. There is only 7 notes in western music. 12 if you count the outer tones.
You decide whether you want to change, or to just go ahead with the song.
Personally, if the chorus sounds too similar to another song, I would change it.
Pier.
Then let your friends (honest ones) listen to the songs.
Drop the ego, ask them if it sounds like any other song.
If it does, ask them to point the part that's similar to them.
From this point on, it is up to YOU
Many successful songs sound like some other song. There is only 7 notes in western music. 12 if you count the outer tones.
You decide whether you want to change, or to just go ahead with the song.
Personally, if the chorus sounds too similar to another song, I would change it.
Pier.
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its very hard to say, "ripping off songs"....
u never know on the other side of the world, if someone has created something like urs, or worst, exactly like yours.
lol i also nv hear before got such thing happen. anyone got any experiences? not say copy, but like by coincidence...
u never know on the other side of the world, if someone has created something like urs, or worst, exactly like yours.
lol i also nv hear before got such thing happen. anyone got any experiences? not say copy, but like by coincidence...
phantom_killer
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Avril Lavine - Who Knows
and
Jay Chou - Qing Tian
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Jay Chou - Qing Tian
Many songs sound similar to each other, since the history of music is hella long, but 2 songs will never sound exactly alike unless a cover of the other. Personally I think many people will inject the styles of their influences into their own compositions, since if they like the music they hear, naturally they'll try to compose something along those lines.
There are notable exceptions where artists deliberately used or remade the material of other musicians but didn't cover the song though, Jimi Hendrix comes to mind, he took the riff from Cream's Sunshine of Your Love and reversed it to compose Voodoo Child :lol:
There are notable exceptions where artists deliberately used or remade the material of other musicians but didn't cover the song though, Jimi Hendrix comes to mind, he took the riff from Cream's Sunshine of Your Love and reversed it to compose Voodoo Child :lol:
XLayaR
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I disagree with the whole '2 songs never sound alike' I think basicaly alota bands nowadays use the same power chords progression over and over again, if you notice. 1 outta every 4 songs WILL have the same chord progression.
But ya, i totally agree that alota song writers use their influences and write their own songs. Not sayin it's wrong or anything, the only thing that does change in a song are the melodies.
That's just my experience with song writing anyway.
But ya, i totally agree that alota song writers use their influences and write their own songs. Not sayin it's wrong or anything, the only thing that does change in a song are the melodies.
That's just my experience with song writing anyway.
teraslasch
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yo sh here ^^.. yea.. i notice that too.. man.. too many ppl with same chord progressions now..
WE HAVE TO CHANGE!!! :twisted:
WE HAVE TO CHANGE!!! :twisted:
XLayaR said:
But note that he says 'exactly alike', which includes the melody lines^^
There is this controversy about Kill Hannah's 'From Now On' is a rip off from hide's PINK SPIDER:
http://acid.poned.com/rip/
hifi_killer
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Theres nothing wrong with ripping off other peoples stuff.
If you wanna rip, rip those unknown bands you think nobody has every heard of. dont bother ripping those popular stuff like G'nr or metallica , you wont get away with it.
either that or
You ripped off a popular song. When someone ask you about it, You'll just say "hell yeah! we !@#$ing ripped off G'NR". The point is, wear your influences proudly on ur sleeves.
everybody started by ripping off somebody
If you wanna rip, rip those unknown bands you think nobody has every heard of. dont bother ripping those popular stuff like G'nr or metallica , you wont get away with it.
either that or
You ripped off a popular song. When someone ask you about it, You'll just say "hell yeah! we !@#$ing ripped off G'NR". The point is, wear your influences proudly on ur sleeves.
everybody started by ripping off somebody
wangdexian
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Gordon, I very much prefer Elisha Cuthbert and Mandy Moore. :lol:
drummar-buah
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sofyan said:
eh sofyan send me the song by michael jackson leh...i'm a dream theatre fan u know...hearing about this ripping thing..i really gotta check out michale jackson. can u add me in msn and just send to me??
wangdexian
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gordonzz said:
Your old avatar was Elisha isn't it?
Old sig= was Mandy... :lol: