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hi everyone in the last couple of months i have been learning to write songs on my own i must say it's been a wonderful experience...being able to express my creativity in songwriting so far i have written 15 songs not so great i must admit but hey..we have to start somewhere don't we as i write more songs, i encounter these following symptoms: - becoming more difficult to come up...

hi guys I wonder how you save phrase or musical ideas that come to your mind. Let's say that you come up with an interesting phrase that is in your mind. It makes sense to record this phrase before it vanishes from your memory. Do you use any digital recorders when you compose witha guitar? Do you use music notation software to have a copy of your ideas ? do you use guitar tab for saving your...

Here are two instrumental tracks that are complete. Just looking for some feedback. (was going to put them here, but I couldn't compress them enough) www.myspace.com/chrismshields http://www.soundclick.com/bands/def...m?bandID=889 615 Thanks.

Hi all, So i've been bashing away at finishing my first instrumental song. I've got the following basic structure all in the key of B minor: Intro-Verse-Verse-Chorus-Verse-Verse-Chorus- And now i'm at a breakdown section. I wanted to change it up a bit since i've been in B minor the whole time. I've kept the backing on this pretty basic and am currently alternating between 1 bar of G...

I admit, if I saw the subject of this post I might think "come on, if you're using the word "steal" and feel guilty, don't do it". But please, hear me out. I was flipping through this book of guitar licks, and saw something that looked interesting - it was based on a maj9 arpeggio (1 3 5 7 9) and had a nice angular quality (skipping around the tones of the arpeggio) but still flowed nicely, ...

..on which i´d need some advice. I basically wanna know how other people would approach the recording of it. I think the overall sound is rather dark and muffled - its just not satisfying..... What would you change soundwise?? Also, any feedback on the song is welcome! It´s called "Smile, Fenchurch loves you" and can be heard on my myspace site! thanks ALEX

Hello, I'd like to transcribe the three singing parts of the verse of the Beatles' Nowhere Man. I'm trying to do this by listening to the studio version of the song. Here is what I've managed: He's a re-al-no-where-man (Chord: first half: E; second half: B) b-b-e-e-d#-c#-b (melody) e-e-g#-g#-f#-e-d# (second voice) Sit-ting-in-his-no-where-land (Chord: first half: A; second half: E) a-...

Comments on the following will be appreciated: As one composes or arranges a song, is it helpful to see a readout, on a staff, of the notes that one has played on a keyboard? Also, how easily can this be done with a computer? Perhaps this is already done independently of a computer with some Roland digital pianos. In summary, is this a good feature when composing or arranging?

hi guys I want to learn composition by studying scores of the popular songs. I am particularly interested in modal songs based on scales. Genres I am interested in are blues , rock and heavy metal. Do you know any websites where you can buy scores of many popular songs in genres I mentioned before? Do you know any books with song scores that I can use for learning? I am a guitar player ...

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hi everyone in the last couple of months i have been learning to write songs on my own i must say it's been a wonderful experience...being able to express my creativity in songwriting so far i have written 15 songs not so great i must admit but hey..we have to start somewhere don't we as i write more songs, i encounter these following symptoms: - becoming more difficult to come up...