Have you ever subconsciously written a song that you KNOW you've heard before?

[Pig17]

This happens to me once in a while.

I'll pick up a guitar or sit down to a piano and all of a sudden, something will come to me. I'll play it, and it sounds so familiar, and I know I've heard it before but I just can't seem to pinpoint it. Am I just subconciously getting out the stuff that I've already written in my head or am I ripping of someone else?

Or maybe I'm just nuts...:lol

[HolyCow]

All the time. All the freaking time.

[unccrombie]

All the time. All the freaking time.
i wrote collide once

[Dobler]

i once had this dream i wrote this amazing tune with a great melody and chord progression..... i went over to the guitar and realized it was "burn one down" by ben harper!! haha

[TGaucho]

dude, probably once every 6-8 weeks. One time i "wrote" Comfortably Numb . . those were 2 of the best hours of my life until i realized what it was. :lol

[born 1991]

Months ago, I was messing around on my guitar and made up a riff I liked for my band and have been working it. I thought it was ok for my first tune. This was before I had heard Shotgun. Today I was trying to learn the tab for Shotgun when I found out my riff was almost identical, just without the capo. Hopefully it's a good sign for my songwriting skills.

[bennettr]

I once wrote some song by the hives... whatever

[DaveHead36]

I once re-wrote Pink Floyd's "Mother" unintentionally. Sat at the piano. Same chords and melody but different words. I was so happy. I tracked it and was on my way to the next town over to play it for my friend. On the way there I listening to the radio and Mother happened to come on. My heart broke into a million pieces. Here I had this great song, but Pink Floyd beat me to it by about 20 years!

[VanHorneDog]

Months ago, I was messing around on my guitar and made up a riff I liked for my band and have been working it. I thought it was ok for my first tune. This was before I had heard Shotgun. Today I was trying to learn the tab for Shotgun when I found out my riff was almost identical, just without the capo. Hopefully it's a good sign for my songwriting skills.

i hate to burst your bubble... so i wont. :lol

[jmccue7]

all the time. you can't help it because if you play an instrument you've gotta be a huge music fan and will undoubtedly be influenced by bands you like.

i've definitely written a couple beatles songs

[som3d3vil34]

hahaha Its happened many times to me. You'll just be fooling around on the guitar/piano and you'll get a small riff or chord progression that you like. As you continue to play it sounds more and more like you've heard it before. I HATE that. Glad to know Im not the only one.

I've still got a few guitar parts that Im playing that sound like they might not be mine, but I dont know for sure yet.

[born 1991]

i hate to burst your bubble... so i wont. :lol

Haha too late! I already burst it when I looked back at my post and realized that it was just coincidence...




or destiny.:evil

[Pig17]

all the time. you can't help it because if you play an instrument you've gotta be a huge music fan and will undoubtedly be influenced by bands you like.

i've definitely written a couple beatles songs

I written so many DMB songs, I've lost count. :lol

[Rockyall107]

i wrote #41...and grace is gone

[lestat1600]

This happens to me once in a while.

I'll pick up a guitar or sit down to a piano and all of a sudden, something will come to me. I'll play it, and it sounds so familiar, and I know I've heard it before but I just can't seem to pinpoint it. Am I just subconciously getting out the stuff that I've already written in my head or am I ripping of someone else?

Or maybe I'm just nuts...:lol
depends. myself i have wrote stuff only to find out it is from a band i like, other times it sounds close to it but is different, and other times its the same chord progression but played different. but really all songs are ripped off from another. either chords or picking, progession, etc....

[One_AntMarching]

it seems right now im in the middle of a mixture of American Baby, Halloween and Dont go away by oasis :confused

[roach187]

i wrote light lift me up like 3 weeks ago and then heard it again and got pissed, but i reworked it and added some and took some out, now its differant and mine o mine

[dwdrums36]

Just accidently wrote The Kids Are Alright by the Offspring...Sucks. It was such a nice punki-ish type of song and I was excited b/c I don't write alot of music like that...Then it came on the radio :(

[Taylor/Martin]

Sometimes I'll think that when I write a song it sounds like something else, but then I'll listen to the song, and it doesn't sound much like it at all. The way I see it, if you write a song, and it is original but has some similarities, that's okay. However, there's a line between being similar and almost like a part 2 to the song it sounds like. Influences are going to cause some original songs to sound like the music that you listen to regularly. Most of the time if I write a song that sounds like something else, even distantly like something else, I scrap it and start over.

[PhishSticks40]

I wrote Dodo two or three times, and I think I write "Dirt" by phish every day.