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    Getting stuck on new songs

    Toddskins, Thanks for the advice, very well taken to heart Random Hero, That's worked for me too, merging a couple song ideas together into one complete song. Sometimes you can get an interesting twist on a song you hadn't thought about. Once I finish some material I'm working on, I'll...
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    Getting stuck on new songs

    Cool, thanks for the replies. I like Ido1957 approach of finishing them and "nailing the coffin" shut. I think I could easily finish them pretty fast and they would be good songs. I think I"m expecting too much from them, like for them to complicated, "grand masterpieces". :confused: Over...
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    Getting stuck on new songs

    As a lifelong musician (who's never really written until recently), I find myself getting stuck on songs about 3/4 of the way through making them up. I think maybe I'm trying to make them too complicated, with too many complicated chord progressions. Maybe simplicity would be the way to go...
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    ukulele

    Grn, My all-time favorite Ukelele song is "Happy Ukulele" by Pure Heart. Very happy sounding and upbeat. It's awesome. :D (Jake Shimabukuro plays the uke) Jeremy
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    Noise Reduction and Compression

    Hi all, I currently use Magix Audio 2005 deluxe for my recording studio software. I have 2 questions regarding Noise Reduction and Compression: 1. Within each track indivudually, I can run the denoiser and dehisser. Now I can also run the same denoiser and dehisser on the overall mix (after...
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    Where do your songs first take form?

    Mine seem to take form when I just set down to play my acoustic or keyboard. Ususlly, I'll stumble on a good chord progression and try to add lyrics as I'm making up the chords. It helps me with the melodies too, to write it from start to finish: music, lyrics, melody and all... And I try to...
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    Your favorite brand of Acoustic Guitar?

    The best I would have to say is my D-35, so I voted for Martin. Over the last 10 years, I've also owned a D-28, and a D-1R (a great sounding guitar for the price). :D
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