Injustrial wrote:- Be unique. If you've got something noone else has, you get away with making a few mistakes. If you sound just like everybody else, you'll be compared to them, and will ultimately lose
This so very much.
Don't copy other artists because you want to be just like them. Not because tutorials about how to be like them in 3 easy steps are readily available either.
If you absolutely have to do as they did for whatever reason, then reference the artists, quote them, pay homage to them or parody them. And: This is even better if you base your work on someone a) who hasn't been copied by other brony musicians to kingdom come and back again already (*cough* Skrillex *cough*) and, better yet, b) whom hardly anyone would expect to be quoted musically by a brony. For example, who'd expect anypony to start working on a polka medley much like Weird Al (Flaofei, in this case) or parody a 40+-year-old rock song (I'm looking at you, Przewalski's Ponies)?
However: The above can be applied to covers of already existing pony music as well, in fact, especially to these. This means: Pick a song everypony knows – and do something with it that nopony ever saw coming. Think "Join The Herd" as bluegrass or ska punk.
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