Most often, I'm fooling around on my guitar when a musical idea comes. (A lyrical idea might pop into my head at any moment, so I always carry a pen and pad, just in case.)

Recently, though, I plugged in four four-bar chord progressions into BIAB (all in Bb) just to see how they might sound. (I had Googled "chord progressions" and was looking to try some I had not used before.) Turnes out I wrote a tune to cover all four of the progressions. I like it. My stepson is autistic and rarely talks and this melody makes me think of him, so I'm happy to have this among my compositions, though I don't know that this will be a way I often write.

Who knows? Life is full of surprises.

"If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often." Leonard Cohen