Another year to go

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

Well, keep singing when you can and a year will go by before you know it.

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

First, learn to like your voice and than check out these singing tips from Eric Arceneaux http://youtu.be/v3MQwbkDUX8.

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Tony Houston

I've always wanted to sing. I'm really gonna try to get decent at it.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

My job takes up all of my time so I'm neither writing much nor playing much these days.

Actually, I keep a long list of titles, phrases and ideas on a spreadsheet. And, yes, once you pick one to work with it seems to make the process easier. I have Notion Progression software for songwriting, but I've had neither the time nor the inclination to master it. It's a lot of work.

I'm mostly 'old school' when it comes to writing, a #2 pencil, pad of paper, guitar and netbook with the Rhyme Zone website http://www.rhymezone.com/ loaded, oh, and I'm alone, for me songwriting is like masturbation, something done in private .

As a creative exercise, I wrote lyrics and added lead guitar to backing track this created. It's called 'I Miss My Horse' http://youtu.be/tDMrhkZHxKc.

I have a friend whose daughter rides, and one day she told me that her daughter's favorite horse had died. She also remarked how that horse was so gentle compared to new horse, so this info inspired me to write the lyrics, also I was confined to the song's 2:25min arrangement since I didn't create it.

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Tony Houston

I'm the same way

All pencil and paper too.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

Stopped writing lyrics before I started playing guitar. Weird I know. If I make a song up these days, its strictly instrumental. Now I sing cover stuff and apparently I don't completely suck. My young cousin (23) says I should be on glee or something. Still not sure if that's a good thing since I don't know Wth glee is. Maybe I'll start writing again and put music to it.

Most times I never set down to create a instrumental, a riff will come to me while playing and I'll create a song around like this track 'Far East'
http://youtu.be/KiInjhN-VY4.

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Tony Houston

Has anyone tried the lyric writing technique? - Where you pull random phrases from a magazine or newspaper and write them all down on a large sheet of paper until it's completely full. Then you start to find common threads and put certain phrases together. I find that this is a great way to get the wheels turning and help me use words and ideas I wouldn't normally write.

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David Irelan, Community Leader, http://www.sharemyguitar.com

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You know I had never heard of this until read Keith Richards' book 'Life'. Him & Mick did this for one of the Stone's early songs.

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Tony Houston