Yea that's my thinking. It's the intro that raised my brow more than anything.
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I've been playing guitar and drums for several years, some writers are afraid that if they listen to other people's songs, their own songs will come out sounding too much like something that's already out there. I disagree. Any new song is made of bits and pieces of other songs.

Imagine you have a big box of Legos. Some of the pieces came from a Star Wars set, and some from a pirate ship set. But you take those sets apart, dump the pieces together and use them to build a dinosaur. The more different sets you dump into your box and mix around, the more interesting things you can build out of the various parts.

Well, the big box is your brain, and the different Lego sets are the songs you know! The more songs you hear and/or learn, the more great new melodies your brain will be able to create out of all the bits and pieces.

I like yours better.

Slower and softer.

Hi Hermit,

My take on this is that Dm is a very simple chord, which can be played with only 3 fingers.
It is also very "haunting" and moody, so it's a great place to explore when you're learning the guitar!

For that reason, thousands - many thousands of people have dabbled in variations of picky Dm intros.

Yours does sound remarkably similar to the other one, but I remember trying out almost exactly the same combination of notes myself ages ago, and I have never heard your song, or the other one before, so my best guess would be simple coincidence. Many thousands of people trying out variations on a very limited number of chords/notes.

I'm liking the sound of it too btw !

GTD

Ask other musicians, pretty common, happens often, the guitar neck is not an inexhaustible source of sound.

What are you trying to say?
There are only a limited number of guitar chords, obviously you will have music that may sound like some others.

When I was in grade 1 me and my friend played bionicals in real life, and played a game where we had to get a golden mask. 1 year later, bionicals the golden mask movie came out. IT MUST BE THE GREATEST CONSPIRACY IN THE WORLD!!! OH NOEZ!!!!!!

/tinfoil hat

Well, I'm far from being a pro musician but I guess I must have done what you guys did and hit the play button on both samples at the same time. They are remarkably similar and could easily pass as the same piece to my untrained ear.
Has to be coincidence though.

All good replies. Thanks for playing mates.
cheers