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Posted by: CathShadow Sep 18 2009, 08:28 PM

Ok so I was messing around with some chords and played this tune but it sounds SERIOUSLY familiar.

Does anyone recognise it????

(scuse the sound)  arbriff.mp3 ( 202.08K ) : 180

 arbriff2.mp3 ( 224.08K ) : 139
< slightly better quality I think

Posted by: Marcus Siepen Sep 21 2009, 05:47 PM

Hmmm, sounds familiar to me, I just can't recall what it might be

Posted by: Mrblomme Sep 21 2009, 06:13 PM

Isnt that something from Iron Maiden? Dunno what song but it sounds also familiar to me...

Posted by: CathShadow Sep 21 2009, 07:14 PM

haha that's EXACTLY my problem: it sounds SO familiar... I just can't place what the HECK it is?!

Posted by: Marcus Siepen Sep 22 2009, 04:06 PM

Hehe, I know this problem, sometimes I am working on some ideas, and at some point they start to sound familiar, but I can't tell what it is... that's the moment when the idea gets buried

Posted by: Rated Htr Sep 22 2009, 10:16 PM

Hold on...changed my mind

It does sound familiar...Have to think

Posted by: CathShadow Sep 23 2009, 07:50 AM

rofl yeah agreed -> the idea seemed to stop once it sounded familiar.... but now it's SERIOUSLY bugging me rofl




Hmm I'm not sure... I last listened to maiden probably in 2002/3... I guess it COULD be though....

Posted by: Marcus Siepen Sep 23 2009, 09:54 AM

Most likely you will recall the "original" as soon as you stop trying to find out about it

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Sep 23 2009, 06:52 PM

Putting some original vocals/lead melody on top of it would make it your original I believe. The signal was really badly clipped.

Posted by: CathShadow Sep 23 2009, 08:01 PM

Hehe yeah sorry about that...

Hmmm I uploaded a "cleaner" version of the sound

Posted by: CathShadow Oct 29 2009, 10:32 PM

So I finally found out which song it was:

Listen to the first few seconds of it

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Oct 30 2009, 01:15 PM

Yeah, that's pretty much the same as the intro

Posted by: Muris Varajic Oct 30 2009, 01:41 PM

There are tooo many riffs with similar idea, walking 5th, min 6th and 4th over fixed root,
I believe you can avoid familiar sounding (if you want) by changing rhythm pattern,
rhythm changes everything.

Posted by: CathShadow Oct 30 2009, 01:57 PM

Yeah I noticed a lot of times in my playing that changing rhythm even just slightly completely alters the sound... it's actually really cool

Posted by: Muris Varajic Oct 30 2009, 02:03 PM

That's the power of rhythm indeed.
If you analyze some epic melodies (like Jingle Bells per example)
you'll notice that rhythm is actually what's more important and not notes (pitch),
Scott Henderson explained that nicely in one of his tutorials tho,
you keep playing same rhythm with different notes and it still reminds of same "melody".

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Oct 30 2009, 03:07 PM

Very nice point Muris

Posted by: Vasilije Vukmirovic Oct 30 2009, 04:30 PM

nice riff, it doesn't sound familiar to me.