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When composing music, how to be influenced by a soundtrack (of films, video games...) without copying?

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[โ€“] e0qdk@reddthat.com 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Deliberately copy snippets of a work you're interested in as a study -- e.g. transcribe it -- and experiment with elements you find interesting (rhythm, chords, synths, effects, whatever) in small test pieces to make sure you understand what's going on. Let the ideas stew for a while and then much later try to use the techniques you learned in a real piece.

That's what I do anyway.

[โ€“] jlow@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Clearly mark these as Do Not Use or something!

When getting into digital painting I copied some of my fav artists works from Insta and stuff and I now have a lot of pics where I don't remember if they're mine or not ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ

[โ€“] e0qdk@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Definitely! I usually name my files starting with YYYY_MM_DD (which makes it easy to sort by the date I started making the file), a number for which entry it was on that day (1,2,3,4... plus sometimes a letter too if I want to keep multiple drafts), and a few words if I have other details I want to remember. e.g. "transcribe_song_by_artist" or things like "cont_YYYY_MM_DD-entry" when I continue working on a piece from a long time I ago. Sometimes I add a title after that too if I wanted to give the piece one.