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We certainly.... .....appreciate the offer Chili. Gecko - excellent ideas all around. I think that input for the makeup of the Challenge should be just as collaborative as the Challenge itself. Thanks, Dave. aka up-fiddler

The knife cuts both ways When a person keeps changing with each song they write people can't figure out what genre they are in. Invariably they write tunes people like but also write tunes that they hate. On the other hand there are folks who find their style and stick with it because it makes...

Trusted? Perhaps. Guru? I think not. Still, glad to have you in the ring. Any others who may be interested? Does this idea actually have legs?

Actually even numbers aren't a big issue since participants could enter more than once and be on two or even three collabs. Another alias is a great idea and leads us away from an Orwellian 1984 type process.

OK. So while I was stuck I was thinking that I just needed a bit of a push from someone, somewhere and I would get back to writing sweet heartfelt prose that would make young girls weep and old men piss themselves. That's when an idea for a Challenge hit me betwixt the blinkers. What if, on a...

Here is what I have so far...... I am not happy with it in the least but will give it some study over the next few days. :o:o I may throw some music under it and see what happens. I know I can do better but I simply haven't taken charge of the forced rhyme scheme yet. Say,"Lah Vee".:D:D They...

Horizontal progress In the bars, on the streets, at the fairs. I still don’t like this line and need to look closely at it before I write myself into a corner The stupid corner it is though. I need to get on with the song.:o He was leaving the bar heading west Going home for some well deserved...

Nice piece this. I especially appreciate the explanation. Too often we focus on product and not process around here. While it is true that the final product is most important, the process is often helpful as a learning tool for the rest of us. Thanks for sharing this one. ;)

Gerry - Don't I remember... ...you posting the lyrics to this on the forum a few months back? I love the straight ahead manner in which this song drives. I am ALWAYS envious of your guitar tone and some day mine may sound half as good. (I hope!) Are you going to work this one up as a full band...

Here's the grass.--------------------------------------- Here it's greener. WE all try to do everything as well as anyone else can do it. It is a no win situation but it is also our lot. I have never met anyone who did this for any length of time that...

The first verse/chorus... ...just knocks me over! You are too critical of your efforts. No, this isn't radio play material. It IS, however, YOU and I like what I hear in you. I would rather listen to several hundred of the "yous" out there than even two hours of pop radio play. Rant begins...

Minor progress I have changed a couple of words to stress absence of volition. I also have change the metre in my head to 3/4 time. Perhaps it is because I played around writing a waltz yesterday and I can't get the 1,2,3 out of my head.:D Still.....I believe 3/4 time is the way to go with this...

Silly ideed! I hear circus style calliopes in the background when reading the lyrics. I hope this one ends up as music. It will be interesting to hear what yo do with it.

There was NEVER a song fast enough for the mandolin player!:D:D:D Seriously though, I botched it shortly after I went with the key change and need to record it again. Today was just getting the song out of my head so I wouldn't forget it. You are very right about the guitar needing definition...

Which is Ojibwa for Dance of the Chickadee or Waltz of the Chickadee. I wrote it last night and arranged it and recorded it today. There are some serious mixdown issues with this version and I will need to revisit the tune to add percs and bass. Then I will take care of the gawd-awful guitar...

And now a rough beginning. Now for the hard part.....the rest of the song. They came from all over the town To see him lightly step round He would swing so free That the earth left his feet He called himself Dancin’ Sam Brown.

You have genuinely captured the feel of an angelic rabbit hopping about. Napoleon's Little Sleep, once I know the explanation, is outstanding. I think as a musical piece it would stand better if it had a powerful bass line.....like maybe a bunch of cellos or bowed uprights. I fully understand...

I still like the name Angeline and the purity attached to it. She will make a great seductress/villain. The song ending will be something like this. The object will be to add new clarity to the chorus……and of course to tell a story. They came from all over the town To make him dance one more...

Radical change is taking place 'Can't lovers dance?' is the line that inspired the next thoughts and what I am writng here. By the by, I started at 4:30AM local time today. So I have changed tunes since the other one was going nowhere fast. I am looking at a sorry time in our country when...

You CAN.......but will it actually make you happy to do so?:confused: You are driven (Pun :D intended.) my friend and I don't think that you would be very content to sit upon your laurels and watch the rest of us work, suffer, and grow through the month. I knew there was a reason I liked...