[Closed] Anyone heard how similar these two songs are?

Apart from having a different drum score, different chord progressions, different guitars solos and a different vocal score they're... .

I suppose they're roughly the same type of music.

Excellent. Check out this though to make it 10 songs that sound very similar indeed:

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Although the Cash song is a cover of someones elses song so it wasnt him

It strikes me that Santriani's song is a closer copy of some of the earlier songs. The Coldplay one is not an obvious copy. What was the outcome of the law suit?

My son writes songs, I join in sometimes. It's not just the succession of notes that counts, it's the feel given when playing: strumming/picking pattern, guitar tone, rhythm. If you only consider the notes then you can often find something in classical, folk, jazz, blues etc. to show that the chord/note progression is already in the public domain.

Tears dry on their own is Marvin gaye ain't no mountain high enough, verse chorus and middle 8 utterly blatant

You think that's bad, Dave Grohl admitted his, and went ahead with it anyway.

There is a guitar solo on "from time to time" which i have heard note for note the same on the Mondays live album, and something from the 60's/early 70's, of which i have embarrasingly forgotten both the title and band...

And there is the sad story of "down under" and the kookaburra song 😥

Nope, but a little part of me died when someone pointed out a similarity between Leftfield's Release The Pressure and The Macarena.

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A Paul Heaton song and a (stifles laughter) Ocean Colour Scene song? Er no, can't say I've heard them...or ever will.

Leftfield's Release The Pressure and The Macarena.

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A Paul Heaton song and a (stifles laughter) Ocean Colour Scene song? Er no, can't say I've heard them...or ever will.

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The Yeah Yeah Yeahs single Heads Will Roll and Public Image Limited This is Not a Love Song are basically the same riff:

Dean Grey's American Edit mashes up Green Day's American Idiot. Lots of interesting connections there. My favourite: