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Sonic Inspiration (and Theft)
With all the varied tones available through the Nembrini amps, I find myself playing more and more guitar these days. Different presets inspire different riffs, naturally.
I had an excellent new guitar line that quickly evolved into a song. I'm playing the BGExtasy, "nice clean" with a lot of gain, and the riff just flowed out of me. Then while on a bike ride, I suddenly started singing the great Ted Leo and the Pharmacists' track "Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?" and I realized: _Oh. _Yeah. It's not the same notes or the same tempo, but it's absolutely the same guitar tone. I just rewrote the Ted Leo song sideways.
Does anyone else do this?
Comments
Nothing wrong with that.
I just consider it to be continuing the folk tradition.
I think everyone does this at least some of the time...though not always realizing it.
I do. One time I recreated a Prinzhorn Dance School riff note for note, which was a pain as it was perfect for my song, and then I couldn’t think of anything else.
More than once I've found that I used some of the same notes that Mozart and Beethoven used. I feel guilty.
For shame.
I shit you not, but back in 1998, I created a melody for a cheesy Eurodance tune. A couple years later, Darude released "Sandstorm" with the exact same melody. 😬 I never uploaded the melody anywhere, so it was purely coincidence. This type of stuff probably happens more often than one would think it'd happen.
With only 7 out of 12 tones used in most scales (aeolian and ionian being the most common by far) and over 7 billion people in the world, it's inevitible that more than one composer will come up with the exact same melody as many other composers.
I think this is why the older I get, the more I get into Ambient, Musique Concrete, Minimalism, etc. I never cared to listen to, let alone produce, those genres in my early 20s (i.e. my "immature" days), but in my late 30s, I find those genres more creatively satisfying. If I were to browse freesound.org and use a field recording, and someone else uses the same field recording, what are the chances the both of us would edit it, mangle it, transform it, etc in the same exact way with the exact same chain of fx? (And even then, most kids these days aren't vying to become the next Stockhausen compared to becoming the next generic EDM producer signed to Spinnin, so there are far less chances of two people transforming a field recording in the exact same way.
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