airamitsukifan
New member
I've been trying to write songs for 6 months, I try to create songs with strong melodic and rhythmical hooks, catchphrases, but it sounds too much like I'm ripping off this or that song.
I know that the idea the every possible song has been written sounds ludicrous, because there is new music being released everyday. If you do a permutation you'll see that the number of ways in which you can combine notes, harmonies, structures etc. is so big that we will possibly never run out of new music. Not all of these combinations would be pleasant to hear, so if you discount the combinations that don't work it's still a HUGE number, but think about how many songs have been released, say, in the past 100 years. Chances are a lot of the melodies, chord progressions etc. of recent songs are too similar to already existing songs. The same melodies and rhythms are constantly re-hashed to create something "new".
I really want to write something unique, but maybe this is the reason why I'm struggling with writer's block. Is this common with beginners?
I know that the idea the every possible song has been written sounds ludicrous, because there is new music being released everyday. If you do a permutation you'll see that the number of ways in which you can combine notes, harmonies, structures etc. is so big that we will possibly never run out of new music. Not all of these combinations would be pleasant to hear, so if you discount the combinations that don't work it's still a HUGE number, but think about how many songs have been released, say, in the past 100 years. Chances are a lot of the melodies, chord progressions etc. of recent songs are too similar to already existing songs. The same melodies and rhythms are constantly re-hashed to create something "new".
I really want to write something unique, but maybe this is the reason why I'm struggling with writer's block. Is this common with beginners?