So I was listening to the radio today and to my surprise I thought they were playing a Final Fantasy song, but wasn't??

From 0:00 - 0:12, listen to this

Ok now the Final Fantasy Prelude themes

The song Pete Townshend - Let my love open the door was made in 1980 and Final Fantasy first started in 1987...what the hell Nobuo?

Nah, he didn't copy it. He made the prelude in ten minutes, and I don't think he'd have access to that disc in a game studio in Japan and just decided to copy it.

It doens't sound all that similar, listen to the individual notes, the FF prelue pretty much just goes up the scale and then back down, while the other song goes up and down randomly at different points and skips notes. Similar yes, but with .... millions? of songs out there, someparts of songs are going to sound similar to others.

Well he does have inspiration from certain types of music.

Guys, that's not copying...The melodies are similar because they are both arpeggios. You can't copy an arpeggio, you can only use it :P

Gilga is going mad!

FF fanboys are FF fanboys *dunno* Where's the problem of he copied that, i think he likes the music introduction and thinked that this style would be nice and made a remix in 10 minutes.

As a musician, I can tell you sometimes these things can happen coincedently. Maybe he heard the song before, and 4 months later, he had inspiration for the prelude without even knowing it stemmed back to this song (and yes there are similarities, not in exact pitches of course, but more in general content). Maybe he never heard the song and it just happened. Maybe he found inspiration from the song directly.

None of those are "wrong". Many great artists have copied from each other. Creating music these days usually isn't about creating something entirely new, it's about a different take on things already out there. Even among your favorite artists, they will most likely have copied or found inspiration elsewhere.

Please note, using something for inspiration is different than just copying something. He didn't blatantly copy it, it is different enough to be his own work.

It's just a slight variation of the same arpeggio.

*shock*

*awe*

Edit:  Was totally beaten.  -_-

You do realize that even a ten year old can play the prelude? its only music notes going up and down and up and down,  its an arpeggio

here is the sheet.