The method that appeals to me is one I picked up from watching a bio of Stevie Wonder. He will sit in his studio playing his keyboard with the tape running. His engineer will take notes of the time stamp when he hears something that sounds good. They will do this for hours and then later go back to those spots and listen to them together. I like that because at rehearsals or even during a break on a gig, I will just start playing a riff or chord change and start messing with it. Sometimes I will come up with something good to the point one of my friends will say "what is that?" and I'll say I'm just making it up and they will say well it's really good, don't forget it. Since nothing's being recorded, it's soon forgotten anyway but the point is at home I have set up Real Band and recorded some of my personal jams and there is some good possibilites in there. I've learned one of the oldest cliche's in the world is correct, good ideas are a dime a dozen and are worthless unless you actually do something with them and that's the problem. I probably have enough good musical ideas for 5 albums but who has time to actually work on them? Not me. Scott's advice about joining that songwriters forum, setting yourself a deadline and just getting it done is right on.

Bob

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