The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #14336   Message #124358
Posted By: sophocleese
15-Oct-99 - 03:59 PM
Thread Name: Composing Original Tunes
Subject: RE: Composing Original Tunes
Gargoyle, I was once captured by a phrase. I found words from an old poem to go with it. It sounded like something from the seventeen hundreds. Finally I realized where I had heard it before; Deep Purple "Smoke on the Water". I laughed at myself for week. You know, change the instrumentation and a little of the timing and its a whole new sound. There's a tune that I've written two sets of words to now I'm just waiting for the shoe to drop on and I'll know where I got it from. I kind of like it but I'm afraid to sing it in public because I don't want to face the "I recognize that its ..."