grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
Is it arrogant to suggest that there's nothing more for you to learn about songwriting ?
If so, will that moment ever come ?
If so, will that moment ever come ?
No, my songs are perfect.
I just had my second monthly meeting with a new songwriter group on Sunday. The guy who organized it belonged to the Nashville SA group. The ideas and suggestions shared are great. Anyone who says they can't learn any more about songwriting is delusional (or Greg!)
I'm going to let you in on a secret; I know several great and famous songwriters, and not a one of them does exercises, attends seminars, etc, etc. They just write. Period. I'm not going to name any of the aforementioned because I hate name-dropping, and because it's really no ones business, but you can bet none of them participate in the aforementioned silliness. If someone has to attend seminars, read books, etc, to figure out how to write a song, then they're probably not a songwriter in the first place! I doubt seriously if Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Roger Waters, Hendrix, Hank Williams, etc ever attended seminars, or read books about how to write songs. You are either a songwriter or you're not. Period. I'd love to be able to throw a fastball !00 mph, but I can't. I can read books and attend baseball camps till I'm blue in the face, but I'll still never be able to throw a 100 mph fastball. I'm not trying to be a smart-ass, I am just trying to keep people from wasting time and money trying to be something they aren't. You want to be a songwriter? Then start writing. Good luck!
I'm going to let you in on a secret; I know several great and famous songwriters, and not a one of them does exercises, attends seminars, etc, etc. They just write. Period. I'm not going to name any of the aforementioned because I hate name-dropping, and because it's really no ones business, but you can bet none of them participate in the aforementioned silliness. If someone has to attend seminars, read books, etc, to figure out how to write a song, then they're probably not a songwriter in the first place! I doubt seriously if Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Roger Waters, Hendrix, Hank Williams, etc ever attended seminars, or read books about how to write songs. You are either a songwriter or you're not. Period. I'd love to be able to throw a fastball !00 mph, but I can't. I can read books and attend baseball camps till I'm blue in the face, but I'll still never be able to throw a 100 mph fastball. I'm not trying to be a smart-ass, I am just trying to keep people from wasting time and money trying to be something they aren't. You want to be a songwriter? Then start writing. Good luck!
LOL! I always wanted to write "The Great American Novel". I never spent any money on seminars and things, but did major in Secondary Education with an emphasis in Literature, went to writers groups at the local library, etc, etc. Met some nice women at some of those things, but did I ever write "The Great American Novel"? Hell no! I wrote "The Great American Exercise In Futility"! LOL! It now sits in all of it's mediocrity at the bottom of a drawer in a tattered old desk in my office as a reminder that I'm not now, nor ever will I ever be, a great writer. No one can be something that they're not. No matter how much they'd like to be! LOL!