Thank you for listening and commenting. I definitely agree that studying from great works influences and benefits your own music. I am honored that this is your critique! Since this is a medley rather than a cover, I approached the creative compositional task as finding unique and interesting ways to tie the music together and to recreate the sounds that felt authentic to the original. The fact that creating everything from scratch and interspersing my own original content feels authentic means that I succeeded in my goal! I appreciate you sharing your thoughts!