it used to be easy to make original (bad) music simply because even if I tried I couldn't come close to whatever I tried to copy, wether it be a feeling, a drum pattern or a "genre". Now I've gotten a really tiny bit better at translating my thoughts into music, but with that I've started noticing that most of my ideas are very slight variation of things I've heard in other songs, and the problem is it's often similar melodies or overall feeling and I feel like a thief... I guess imitation is the first (in my case second) step to learning to make good original music. What do you think? Am I on the right path?
wait til you hear about how big of a thief everyone else is