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not *really* asking for suggestions too much. Just, that it's been a while since the songwriter has spoken up. I was never very prolific, but ... I feel that the songwriting part of me has been somehow been made to sleep, or turned it's back or something like that. maybe its gone ... I...

Hello - This is a short ambient piece that I did - I'd like to get feedback - what you think of it compositionally, 'impressionally', & if you have any advice on production, mixing & the like http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=270517&songID=4645032 (I hope the link works)...

"listen" ... ok - I guess I walked into that - You know, I think I will restring with a lighter guague. I need new strings anyway.

Have you ever heard the term to 'lie fallow'? in the middle ages they got a greater productivity out of land by rotating fields, and by not planting any crops in a field every three years. we are organic, and cannot be productive all the time. The trick, if you have any kind of...

I have to keep myself from playing this week and probably, for best results, next week. My tendonitis is acting up. I'll sing instead, & work on interval recognition ... any body got any good advice for ear training?

for me my songwriting improved when I was able to tap into the part of my self that deals with symbols, and not to be afraid of what might be there. Also, when I was able to write things that were meaningul to me, and not to think about whether what I was writing was good. I haven't done any...

John Meyer is John Meyer and you are you. It may be that you need to write 50 sketches in order to get to one song. Don't worry about it. The worrying about if you are doing it right will get in the way. #2 - Don't worry about writing songs with your friends. You can't make magic happen...

Nice intro, nice arrangement & feel in your voice. I have to say, this type of music is not my taste, but seems like a pretty good song.

what to you want to write about? Do you have an object, (a picture for example?) of that thing, person - that you can look at while you have the guitar in your hand? focus on the feeling that you get from it. Now, (and this may be hard for you) try to find some music - a melody, a chord...

nah - no etc perhaps analytical linear thought doesn't do much for the germination and generation of the idea - but for the rendering of the idea/feeling into a finished product, something tangible - frankly, the making of art is an engineering job. How do you mix your paint to get the right...

seriously ? yeah, promotion helps, but a good song helps more. Wasn't RIAA bitching last year about how less cds were being sold - but this year more CDs were sold because apparently there is better product out there this year. I have a freind who is young but quite talented and bright...

he he -- you said "pulling power" :P

maybe you should listen to them...

an awful lot to what the above guy says - still - something really useful you can do to improve your range and comfort/projection is work on breathing with your diaphragm, and then doing vocaleses to widen your range. After that, just sing, sing, sing

Radiohead --- the 'outlier' (notice how most of the good bands are clustered around the 60s & 70s?)

If your ears aren't solving all the problems for you, I'd suggest writing your harmonies out and getting a good book. (try to find one with excercises and answers) the combination of writing your own stuff and doing the excercises will make the rules (principles) much clearer to you. Also...

Thanks :) (I've got a pretty good hold on midi)

no - not at all. I'm using reason a lot - how midi is that? but I'm looking on a lot of what I'm doing for it's learning value, rather than worrying too much about the results. Like, it wojuld be cool if I could arrange for strings, written out on paper. Well, if I don't see what I can...

Hi Arda, I had a turkish friend who was going to harvard graduate school at the same time that you were in boston... It may be that your ear is not comfortable with loops - that is you are accustomed to hearing a human being play with all his or her imperfections and your ear hasn't adapted...

just a thought - but if you are doing your composition in reason, and you are using Dr Rex to play your loops - Dr Rex should force you loop to fit the tempo so that 1 is always 1... I guess it goes without saying that your recording wants to be as in time as possible - maybe you should record...