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looking for someone to listen to my melody/pads ideas?
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| wequendi |
hey guys, pardon my english, so i have been listening to old trance records (1999-2009) for the last 8 months or so to learn to produce it and it's a little bit annoying to realise that sometimes when you are recording ideas you end up making the same melody you heard from some other song. It's not on pourpose and it happens to me quite a lot, i guess my brain is flooded with trance.
So i was wondering if someone here with a great knowdledge about old tracks (someone who is able to identify songs or ripoffs to some degree) could help me and listen to my ideas to make sure i'm not copying another track without knowing it (if that makes sense). |
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| Lith |
You are the exact person you are looking for, you have been listening to that music!
It's great to use it as inspiration, but if you have some doubt about what you are writing, ask yourself if you should continue... When you write music with doubt, you probably shouldn't be writing it.
No one will really meet the standard you are asking for until you put together a track, post it, and then let the feedback come in. The worst thing that can happen is that you accidentally ripped-off a track. Unless you're making money off it, consider it a learning experience.
Turn it into a remix, which EDM is more than happy to accept--it just has to be good. Start somewhere! |
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| wequendi |
| Yeah, you are right thanks, at the end of the day there's no way one can copy a track perfectly just by hearing some melody in your brain, pads, drums, etc all would be different. thanks. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| chances are you aren't actually using a melody in that traditional sense are you are using that 3 chord progression everyone js using and when arpegiatted, all starts to sound similar. |
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| wequendi |
So i decided to upload the melody (8 bar loop stretched to 16 bars.), the mix is not good at all and i found the snare to be a little bit annoying. Do you guys recognize the melody from another song or is it just my paranoia? lol.
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| Looney4Clooney |
you are playing a chord progression that is used in a million tracks and outlining the chord with an arpegiatted synth.
You are asking if that chord profession sounds familiar. Yes. Although you kinda botched it but yes, playing chords that have been used in over a million songs will soudn familar. |
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| LoveHate |
lol , yeah go back to the drawing board.
it's not bad, unfortunately its not nothing new either. |
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| wequendi |
| Thanks, the melody itself is not intricate or anything i agree on that. Anyway, i will convert it into a 16 bar melody, now that you say it, it does sound like the arp stops at the middle or something, it sounded ok at first to my ears, always good to have 2nd opinions. |
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| farris |
Regardless of what anyone else says about the melody: finish the track. Learn from it.
Then start a new track. |
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