I'm an indepenant musician who is in the the middle of recording an album; one of the songs to be recorded (an instrumental) has an introduction that is reminiscent of The Godfather theme - by that I mean that the introduction uses similar instrumentation (classical guitar, strings, and mandolin) and has a similar tempo and feel (although the melody and chord progression in the intro are completely different from The Godfather theme). The rest of the song plays the same melody and chord progression using a different tempo, feel, and instrumentation - we just wanted the intro to have kind of an Italian flavor to it. Would what I just described be considered a sound-alike and would it also be considered copyright infringement in regards to the Godfather theme even if the melody and chord progression are different?
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