How do you keep yourself from accidently copying other peoples songs? lol. I know it's stupid, but every time I try to come up with bits of songs, all I can think about are varients of already existing songs that I know...

Tonight I sat down and spend about 30 minutes or so trying to come up with a bass line for a slower song. This was my first real attempt at creating a song too. I thought all was going well, and it was... until I realized I was unintentionally tabing part of Lazy Eye by the Silversun Pickups. Now, it's not exactly the same and my song so far has a bunch of different parts, but one of the main things I built it around is almost the exact same as their guitar....

Kind of frustrating really. I'm going to have to change it up a bit tomorrow if I'm not working again.