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I have "written" guitar riffs that I later found out were from a song I hadn't heard in 5+ years. I had honestly thought that I wrote it.
by billsix 9y ago
I have "written" guitar riffs that I later found out were from a song I hadn't heard in 5+ years. I had honestly thought that I wrote it.
- QAPereo 9y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomnesia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomnesia As you see, that’s just part of being human!
- myko 9y agoHa, my most recent example of this is "Jane Says". In retrospect I'm not sure how I played it for a week without realizing what song I was playing.
- jimnotgym 9y agoMore than that, I have written guitar riffs and melodies and latter found that they are the same as a song I have never heard before! I am sure this due to the very constrained nature of what is practical to reach with your fingers, the nature of the interval between strings, the tricks that hammer-ons allow you to do between certain notes and not others, the way it is easier to apply vibrato and bends to notes around half way up the neck and on the thinner 3 strings. Millions of possibilities for the competent jazz guitarist, but few of them are practical for normal people.
- privacypoller 9y agofrom a copyright perspective intent doesn't factor into it - check out the judgement against George Harrison for “subconscious plagiarism” in the "My Sweet Lord" copyright case.