I write using BB as the notepaper and pen as I play the acoustic guitar. I try to settle on an acceptable style that doesn't inhibit the groove I feel for the song.

I tweeze the style later. Especially if the ideas are flowing well, there's no need to worry with the style when the ideas are coming. I don't want to interrupt that flow.

All my melodies and chords are from the heart, not from the melodist. There was a time that I used the Melodist quite a bit, but I have stopped composing that way. Nothing I every composed that way involved lyrics. So, should I decide to start working instrumental jazz based stuff anytime soon, that would be an option.

I was never a big fan of using a melody that BB had created. So I don't think I ever really used the melody creation function in BB beyond playing around with it early on.

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