ever discovered someone else wrote your song too?

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months ago i heard my riff while running through sirius xm channels in a friends car... YouTube - Annihilator - Alice in hell the first 5 seconds is a riff i thought i wrote. ive never even heard that band so it was awkward :p but funny too how i just stumbled on to that during the period when i was struggling with writing for that song. atleast i didnt have to worry about writing it

recently i started playing this guitar part that i feel is similar to something ive heard before ... im just not sure if i have or what it was :eek: i could just feel that way... i think i might post the part on here to see if anyone has heard it before :p
 
I've long suspected that The Beatles wrote all of my songs before I did, now they get paid and I don't.

I think my influences come thru. I frequently get comments saying they feel like they've heard my song before, it sounds like some group I've heard before but I cant figure out who it is. Well, that's because I wrote it and it is not a copy of what you've heard before, but merely influenced by a bunch of things you've heard before.
 
my mate pete writes guns and roses songs all the time.
He's written a few dylan classics as well.

I figure everything's been used at one time or any other. it's what you add to it (lyrics, style, voice, etc) that make it yours.
 
I have the Annihilator Alice in Hell CD... I'm 43, heh heh...
 
To be honest, no one wanting commercial success would be writing stuff I've come up with, consciously or unconsciously !
 
Its all relative. Sometimes we rip off stuff without even knowing it (a la George Harrison). With only 12 tones in western music something is bound to repeat itself.
 
Yes! It has only happened once, but The White Stripes "As Ugly As I Seem" was extremely similar to a song that I had written about 4 years earlier. It's a good example where I can guarantee that neither of us heard each other's work, but still came out with similar results.
 
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It's called "Morphic resonance". Many times, two band members will write a song each so similar that when put together, it's like they wrote it together. Either that or one ripped off the other !
 
This happens to me, but a bit differently. I'll write some lick or chord progression that I really like, and then I'll start to play around with different feels and tempi. Sooner or later, I'll realize that the riff I like was actually from "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," which is why it sounded good to me. I usually stop working on it at that point, or learn the cover.

So yes, it happens to me all the time.
 
Just everyone be careful!
Look what they did to Sir George. :(

And that was with only three notes!
 
Yep, happens to me too. Sometimes with a melody or progression; sometimes with a lyric or concept of a song. Although it's a bit frustrating, in that I pretty well have to give up on my own song (as "they" got there first) at least it means that my stuff might stand a chance of getting airplay...if I ever managed to get it to the right people! ;)
 
What a good thing Adam had

A new, original idea is hard to come by nowadays. But, one piece of music engenders a similar, but different, original offshoot. That one another etc. The results are different and progressive. But, I still like this quote: Mark Twain said, "What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before."
 
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