Originally Posted By: MarioD
Paul, my major sources of encouragement are from the showcase forum and soundcloud.
I do get some encouragement as well as dis-encouragement from JonD, BobH and SteveS. Anytime you collaborate with someone it is a give and take.

Locally I have been told that I can't sing, which I agree with, can't play guitar, I'm too old to play, etc. You have to be thick skinned when you put yourself out into the public! Just don't worry about it.

Working alone on a song is a solitary job, at least for me. The above mentioned people will record something and I am left to put it all together. A lonely job but one that I enjoy, especially if the final product is one that people enjoy.

If you are in composer's block or just plain down do what I do. Put a few chords in BiaB and have the melodist generate a melody. Take everything over to your DAW and pick a few measures of the melody. It could be 2,4, 8, whatever number of measures and save them but delete the rest of the melody. Now take those measures and make a complete song out of them by adding your own parts, copy and pasting them, changing notes in the copies or whatever. It gets mind thinking and it is fun.

Also you might get inspired by a work in the woods or a good book, whatever as long as it has nothing to do with music. This also has worked for me.

I hope this helps and good luck.


Great post Mario. I do that very often with my songwriting but also use the chord generation function. Will do a blog post on this.

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