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I've been there when people have jammed and I've always wanted to join in, but I FREEZE UP. I get sooo scared. Its impossible. The other day I was hanging with these dudes from Berklee and they wanted me to join them. I was like NO WAY - I'm ok I'll just watch. But later one of the guys...

"If you can't remember it..." On the idea of "If you can't remember it, it must not be that good" I have a theory -- If you can't remember it, your MEMORY must not be that good. I write something down if I really think its good. I don't wanna lose it, & heck, my memory just isn't...

I think lots of work, everyday, writing songs is the only thing to do. I have a freind who is like, 19 years old and he just matter of fact told me he's written about 100 songs. Another time he mentioned that you have to write at least 50 shit songs before you get anything half decent. It...

I really can't read music - I sho nuff can't write it. I write the lyrics, I play what I'm singing on the piano, like a hunt & peck typist, then I write a note name above the syllable -- BUT now that I have my mac with a seqencer, i just play it & remember it. Actually, if I forced...

right now, for me the best song lyrically is "King of Carrot Flowers" When you were young You were the king of carrot flowers And how you built a tower tumbling through the trees In holy rattlesnakes that fell all around your feet And your mom would stick a fork right into daddy's...

I really appreciate everything you guys are saying. Lykdwidk$*%&^@ (I caint spell that to save my life) I'm really glad you understand. Something that's really tough for me is that I recently started seeing a guy who is - essentially what I describe. & he just does this stuff for fun, and...

well, now - I'm not saying I'm a Rock-it scientist, or anything like that...

I posted about a month ago with questions about barre chords. Everybody was soo helpful and encorageing, I wanted to post again - I've made good progress, a kind of leap, suddenly I feel a greater control, my hands are going where I want them to go much more than before - I can make shapes...

Should I keep working on this idea? Would you accept something like this? Too much chorus & prechorus and too little verse? how about the ideas? and how about the words that I have chosen? is this any good, or have I embarresed myself? can you stand the packet of sand thing? is it too...

I had a realization about why myself and perhaps others have trouble with not liking what they write. I'm a late beginner - I'm finally sitting down to really do music after years of dreaming of it. My problem is that I know what sucks when I hear or read it. All those people who started...

there's something about the feel & the rhythm of it that work for me. I think the language needs to be trimmed up. Of course its a 'you fucked up' song, so the sentiment is not love & kisses, right? but I think that some of the nastiness could be tempered. Imho. also, closing one's...

I wanted to thank everyone who responded. I was really hoping for time to say individual responses to each persons suggestions but, alas - I'm in school... But the stuff y'all said was really useful and it was encouraging to get all that feedback. I got to work a looooot on that negative...

try your nearest municipal library, or a good school library. At the Boston Public Library they have a room just for sheet music. Tell the librarian what you need and (s)he will help you find a copy. You may need to do something like an interlibrary loan or some such - good luck

why is everything I write so stupid? Why does my dance stuff sound tinky and cute? Why does my guitar stuff sound pretty and etherial.... I wanna be a lot uglier The thing I hate the most is that when I say to my self (Self!) - ok, i'm gonna spend at least 2 hours a day dedicated to...

I smell berklee ...

paul Mc was so sure that "yesterday" was someone else's song already (it came to him as he was waking up or something) so he apparently asked everybody around him "have you heard this melody somewhere" In fact, I have a song that I think somebody already wrote ... but so far noone has said...

I think an awful lot of us would like to be in your shoes - but we're not there yet.

I wonder about tours sometimes. Live performance is supposed to be where musicians make thier money, but what with paying for hotel rooms and plane tickets for the musicians, I just wonder how people break even.

from what I gather I'm guessing that some of them could by thier own house, a decent, but not extravagant place, some could pay the rent, & some even working pretty hard, might still be having a hard time making rent, maybe keeping some sort of ad hoc day job ... My conclusion - no...

noodle That's my new thing - I'm working on noodling, just letting stuff happen, and NOT JUDGING. That's always been the really hardest part for me. But I've observed that people who are good consistant songwriters are always at play at little bit when they are writing. So, do a bit of...