Old message # 16851
if you knowingly steal from many sources it's called "influences".
the history of music is based on drawing on our forefathers' influences and recombining the very same elements to "speak with our own voice".
put another way, my old music theory professor at the university was fond of saying: "all musicians steal from somebody, so only steal from the best!"you say that your original compositions sound like something you've heard before, but do you know that to be a fact or is your natural tendency towards writing such that every melody you create has a feeling that it was always meant to be?
probably the latter is true. every melody note has a natural tendency to go to one or more melody notes. by following these natural tendencies, you are still speaking with your own voice, yet coming up with melodies so "organically grown" that they appear to be the work of someone else (some even attribute these tendencies to "communing with god or the cosmos").
check out these articles and see if maybe you are simply following the path of the great tunesmiths of history.
creating melodies using "the suggestive method"
the natural path to melodic construction.
https://jeff-brent.com/lessons/suggest.html
melodic tendencies
note choices based on psycho-acoustic factors
https://jeff-brent.com/lessons/melodictendencies.html
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