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Re: When do you know that you have written a good song? Peters Garage #633132 12/29/20 04:58 AM Songwriting
Joined: Jul 2019 Posts: 253 TN R Roger Brown Apprentice
Roger Brown Apprentice R Joined: Jul 2019 Posts: 253 TN	It's an odd thing, but in all the years that I've been writing professionally, and having worked with so many others who have done so, I've found that as songwriters we are the worst judge of our own writing. Some of the songs that I feel are my best work don't seem to move the needle for other people, and yet songs that I wrote and hardly gave a second thought to wound up getting recorded. I think after a while you "know" that you've written something good just by comparative analysis...how does it stack up to your best work. http://www.rogerbrownsongs.com http://www.nashvillesongwriters.com/roger-brown

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When do you know that you have written a good song?	Peters Garage	12/27/20 07:20 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Matt Finley	12/27/20 07:58 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	ThorstenV	12/27/20 09:32 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Matt Finley	12/27/20 10:58 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	ThorstenV	12/28/20 10:47 AM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	MarioD	12/28/20 11:55 AM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	JohnJohnJohn	12/28/20 07:52 AM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Janice & Bud	12/28/20 11:58 AM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Tangmo	12/28/20 01:52 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Deryk - PG Music	12/29/20 11:36 AM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Henry Clarke	01/18/21 04:44 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	MarioD	01/18/21 05:42 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Roger Brown	12/29/20 11:58 AM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	edshaw	12/29/20 02:27 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	chulaivet1966	12/29/20 08:13 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Dewey_MI	01/15/21 05:50 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	TallPaul	02/05/21 02:45 AM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Matt Finley	12/29/20 02:24 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Guitarhacker	12/29/20 09:39 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Peters Garage	12/30/20 11:26 AM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	justanoldmuso	01/12/21 10:11 AM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Anonymous	01/12/21 11:57 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Planobilly	01/16/21 06:43 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Jim Fogle	01/16/21 10:58 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	MarioD	01/17/21 11:28 AM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Jim Fogle	01/18/21 11:06 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Planobilly	01/21/21 08:16 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	camper	01/22/21 06:17 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Tangmo	02/05/21 12:40 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Tobias	02/08/21 02:47 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Janice & Bud	02/08/21 06:05 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Mike Halloran	02/14/21 01:51 AM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Planobilly	02/09/21 12:36 AM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	C. Dan Roberts	02/11/21 10:18 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	DebMurphy	02/12/21 05:26 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Guitarhacker	02/15/21 12:31 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Henry Clarke	02/16/21 09:03 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Guitarhacker	02/21/21 04:25 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Henry Clarke	02/21/21 11:52 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Tina Jay	02/17/21 03:17 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Rob Helms	02/19/21 12:49 AM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Charlie Fogle	02/22/21 09:00 AM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Henry Clarke	02/22/21 01:46 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Charlie Fogle	02/22/21 03:31 PM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Mike Halloran	02/23/21 06:31 AM
Re: When do you know that you have written a good song?	Tangmo	02/23/21 01:19 PM

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