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| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
There are probably hundreds of millions of possible melodies and chord progressions using the twelve basic notes of Western music.
A much smaller fraction of those will actually sound good.
If you find a good-sounding melody, chances are that somebody has already done something rather similar to it, since there have been billions of musicians before you who were also searching for melodies that sounded good to them, and most of them were probably also trying to be original, use melodies and progressions that no one else had used.
But there's not much chance that you've actually heard it before, since we only get to hear a tiny fraction of all the music that people have ever made, even if we listen to music for hours each day for all our lives. So it's new to you, and probably new to lots of other people as well.
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i agree with you to a certain extent. yes for sure almost all good melodies/ chord progresions have been use before, in some type of music style no doubt. so when you say "use melodies and progressions that no one else had used." that is tougher then it sounds when just about everything has been done, wheater it's in trance or what ever type of genere.
so at least theres this i haven't heard any trance that uses jazz progressions, i'm not to sure how that would work with so many synths but it's always a new avenue to explore.
but mainly what i always find when trying to make hooks is i will keep trying to get the exact feel of what i want but i always stumble onto another prog that has already been done before, which is usually the best way to play it, and any other veriation of it just isn't as good, so trying to find great hooks and melodies is pretty tough i think, but on the other hand i think alot of songs kinda have simliar progressions to one another but the synths you use and the way you arrange it can still give and change it to an original feel.
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