Hey, I'm pretty new to the guitar and have only been trying to write music more recently. I've run into a problem a lot where I'll figure something out on the guitar and about 30 seconds after playing it, I'll feel like I've heard it before, and I get nervous about whether it's something I originally came up with, or had already heard and just accidentally figured out on the guitar. This happens especially when I figure a tune out quickly, and it becomes naturally right out of the brewing pot, so to speak.
I understand that nothings completely original, and everyone's copying someone to some degree, but I become fearful that I'm copying someone EXACTALLY as they wrote it, and become tempted to just abandon that path and try to find something else that sounds less familiar.
Does this happen to anyone else? Do you have any ways of working around it if it does?
"Like the coldest winter chill. Heaven beside you. Hell within." -Jerry Cantrell
