The problem is.. when i write sumin on guitar I become paranoid that its a copy of something else. For example i was messing around with Em, D/F# and G5. i came up with a simple but effectively phrased arpeggio run, what I thought would be a good intro or mid8 for a new song. i then thought it sounded too fimiliar, and right enuff, on a B-side to an aerosmith Single theres a track with dialogue over a piano. the piano is clearly playing arpeggios on Em, D and G!!
i in no way copied it but i cant be bothered writing the song now incase its good and people think i copied it!!
I do this all the time, think of a progression and suddenly realise its the same as "do they no its xmas" or "i aint no nice guy". Am worried that I no too much and that theres nothing i can come up with thats origonal. I steer clear of the obvious 3 chord trick but i still end up remembering a similar song.
I came up with this killer central riff from which i wrote other riffs and chorus to make a cool rock track. But now i get the feeling the riffs beat and range is similar to a drum bit off a guns n roses song- they both go daa di di daaaaaaaaa sorta thing (more intricate tho!)
I only just got my 4 track so im only really thinking of the basic progression and structure of the songs, but i feel i cant get off the mark unless i write some genre defining guitar re-inventing part like 'sweet child o mine' or, i duno, 'nothing else matters'.
Its so much harder for people of my generation to write as so many things have now been done. For example- A5- C5- D5-... its clearly Smoke on the water,!! but guns n roses did a song 'pretty tied up" and the first thing i thought of is "they must know that bit is similar!"
Maybe am too picky. this singer Robbie Williams (duno if u no him, hes famous in the UK) has a new song, Feel, n me n my pal thought of like 3 songs it was the same as!! Is this true of all songs?
Whats allowed!!!?