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On top of that, there's no one point where your song would accidentally become non-original; it's a subjective spectrum from "exactly like" to "nothing like" any existing piece of music you might want to compare it to.
I'm a songwriter, I've wondered about this stuff myself. The truth is, you can't be certain you haven't accidentally written a copy of a song you've never heard before, or heard once in 1973 in a restaurant and totally forgot about after. There's no database that can listen to your song and return similar results, unless it's so exactly the same as an existing track that the waveform matches.
But it doesn't matter. If you wrote it and it reflects how you wish to express yourself in a piece of music, and you didn't intentionally copy an existing work, that's what matters. Does it feel original to you, and true to you?
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As to whether what you have written is original the answer is either likely to come to you in a dream or if you have other people listen to it and they identify who it is. But assuming you have used a relatively common chord progression and haven't written something avant garde then it is likely to be at least quite similar to something out there.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wIixmqPWNCA
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Even when songwriters don't intentionally steal they do borrow and that's fine. There's only 12 notes and there's only a few diatonic chord sequences that are instantly pleasing so things do get repeated. If you started playing as many songs as you could think of with a 1 - 5 - m6 - 4 progression you would be there for quite some time, likewise the old 1.4 and 5 rock N roll stuff.
So don't worry, keep writing and enjoying it
That removes any chance of ambiguity.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Rocker, go to www.ComparetheWaltz.co.uk, or perhaps the more classically based www.WaltzCompare.co.uk
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