... and then think its starting to sound like something youve already heard, but cant quite put your finger on it? This just happened to me, and I cant fucking think of what it might be and that sucks because what I came up with is pretty killer.

GODDAMNIT

um... you hit "play" on the cd.. and that's it.
no?

I dont know who it would be by, or if I even own the cd or have it on my computer.

i thought i made up a really cool riff in like 10th or 11th grade....later, when i first obtained a mayhem CD, i realized my riff was the fast riff in "the freezing moon". then recently, i came up with this cool sounding melodic black metal riff, sounded very familiar, then realized it was a riff from some old gorgoroth song that i don't know the title of.....it is kinda depressing, because you think "hey, this riff is awesome i can't believe i came up with this" and you feel good about yourself only to later discover someone else copyrighted "your" music already!

Yeah, it blows. I still dont know what it is, but im pretty sure someones already used it.

when i was 12 i wrote an awesome song and then lenny kravitz released "fly away" a week later...the similarity was astounding...

the way i see it i was a multi-platinum musician before a teenager

SacreligionNLI said:

it was awesome when i was 12...yea

bad artists imitate; great artists steal

I just usually hit play on the CD players

Done that many times. It really sucks when you realize what it is, after releasing it on your cd!!

i wrote this whole acoustic song a couple weeks ago, and then realized the main part sounded like "You Got A Friend in Me" or whatever it's called from Toy Story

the_taste_of_cigarettes said:

Exactly.

i wrote a cool riff, then realized i stole it from Super Mario Bros. 2