Well the title is a bit off, but I'm not too sure how to phrase it better..

Anyways so I've been composing a song, and I've came across this amazing melody that fits perfectly and works for the song I'm writing. However I can't remember which song it was, but I've heard it before.
But the whole song is different, but there is just one section that has the same melody, (6notes) that goes in the same progression as that song?
WIll this be fine? Or will it be referred to as stealing? However I have no intention of stealing whatsoever. Thanks!

 

Be creative do your own shit

 

There are just 34623 trillion melodic combinations left out there. Maybe try another?

 

I think that's the best option!
But like I'm just curious about this, because I know a few songs that's got the exact same progression, and by knowing both the tracks that uses it, it reminds me of each other. But I'll try find another one

 

some people can win a Grammy with it, without flinching during their speech, others don't agree with it morally
on a legal base and as far as u described it, you are on the safe side

 

It's not stealing even if you used it, we should really stop using that word that easily to describe tings like this

Well, it's your moral call, there's even site where you can play something and it tracks from what song that is (Google it, I really don't know the name), try that and see from where are your inspiration coming from and ask for permission.

 

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Hmmnnn... As "Baxter" accurately points out, there are trillions of melodic combinations and progressions out there. The human mind (especially those of 'compositional' musicians) are always seeking newer (and hopefully) entertaining constructs. Unfortunately, no one can be absolutely sure that somewhere, someplace in this vast universe of music, that the composition you've labored on so painstakingly has not been created in some form or fashion somewhere or by someone else. When I was a young boy learning piano basics, one of my teachers said that throughout music history, there has "never" been a melody that has hasn't been done (at some point in time) by another musician. That being said, an 'obscure' piece of music, written and published years and years before, stands a much better chance of not being detected as "plagiarized" than a well-known piece of music. That's why writing music is never an easy proposition. Unless you can know (impossible) each and every lick, melodic turn, chord pattern, etc., ever written or published, chances are you may be treading upon someone's musical territory. "Kwissbeats" alluded to the recent "Burred Lines" song that got Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams into hot water; eventually ending in a legal settlement that awarded Marvin Gaye's family members $7.4 million bucks! Sometimes composers are 'truly' innocent, but at other times, the end music product is the result of aforethought and malice. So, be extremely careful about publishing that song with the infectious beat and catchy melody... You never know when some lawyer will come a knockin' -- especially in this age of Social Media.

 

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Six notes on passing through as you continue on the snakey road of process is at worst case a random act of homage and certainly is not theft. Sweat it not to avoid a stomach knot, you are clear of any wrong doing. Sleep well, the sleep of innocence.

 

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant totally got away with it... ehh

 

Great, Thanks for the reply everyone!
I do not have any intention on stealing someones stuff, therefore was just checking!

 

You can't steal it even if you wanted, stop saying that