Why do these pieces sound like each other?

[ranniks]

They also, when playing it/learning it from sheet, seem/feel similar to each other. Not in the sense of each meassure being the exact same thing, but more like the flow/sound/playing of it. Hope that does make sense.

These pieces:

Are my ears/hands/brain betraying me?

[nanabush]

They sound similar probably because of a few things (that I picked up on):

-the accompaniment figures in the LH are pretty similar (and you could probably transfer them from piece to piece)

-the tempi are alike; slow, singing melodic lines

-two are from Naruto, and the other I'm sure fits in the same genre of music

Your ears are not deceiving you lol!  Listen to 4-5 songs that are on the 'pop music charts'.  They generally have a formulaic approach, have the same structure, and make use of 4-5 chords (maybe even a minor chord if they are feeling daring  )

It's generally a genre thing.  I can pick out a Nocturne by Chopin just by hearing the left hand figures (that, and I've listened to them about 1000 times).

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Nanabush pretty well said it, in the end they are similar genre of music.

I have a book of 64 pages of Christmas music written in a sort of New Age genre that could easily transition from one piece to the next. In fact I've done it by accident, leaving a sheet up not realizing it. Playing along I thought wait a minute this sounds like that other piece, because it was !!!! I really need to spiral bind this thing.

[ranniks]

Thanks Nana and David!