Thank you Herb for starting this thread. I believe I am in the group that plays for mostly personal enjoyment. I purchased BIAB back in 2011 just so I had something to make the music more interesting so I would not lose interest.
I watched things in the user forum for about two years before posting anything personal. The mixing and songwriting is something I had never done before.
I have learned allot from these forums, especially the user forum on songwriting and mixing as the willingness of people like yourself and the other members to comment and make suggestions on how to improve what I had posted. I in turn like to listen to all the songs that are posted and comment on whether I liked the song.
There are some very serious musicians that I would categorize as excellent professional level vocalists, song writers and players and am surprised as to why I am not seeing them on the Grammy Awards TV show.
When I start a song I pick a key, try to find a different time signature or style and add some chords. I have no idea what will I end up with..
I have posted some things that I thought were terrible and users through there kindness responded favorably. I have also posted some things that I thought were excellent and the response was not as expected.
I guess the point of this long diatribe is I don't take what I do very seriously other that I love the clean sound of guitar through an amplifier. Getting to hear some pretty cool song and lyrics has pretty ok too..

Scott Collingwood
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