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

  • jlow (he/him)@beehaw.org
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    6 hours ago

    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 🤦‍♀️

    • e0qdk@reddthat.com
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      4 minutes 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.