RE-WRITING PAST MELODIES.

With the millions of songs that have ever been written it might be hard to imagine being able to write a melody that is completely new and that people have not heard before. But the fact is that new melodies are written everyday. The combination of note intervals along with variations in timing leave unlimited possibilities when writing melodies. It is inevitable, however, that as you are writing your own melodies you will come up with something that "sounds" familiar. Something you swear you've heard it before but can't put your finger on where. This happens to all of us. Melodies come out of our subconscious mind from something we heard in the past. This is not a matter of trying to "steal" a melody, it just comes out. Turn on the radio and you can hear evidence of this all the time. Songs that will have a line or two of melody that sounds like something else. This is simply matter of the songwriter's subconscious mind inserting a piece of a melody that they heard in the past.