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Lyrics Critique For Songwriters Article

I've just written a new article about lyric critique: Lyrics Critique for Songwriters I'd love to hear any feedback/comments/suggestions you have, so please feel free to post a reply here or on the boards Thanks!

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My Own Site

For those interested, you can find my own site at: johnmoxey.com Let me know what you think of it! I also run blogs here: http://blog.myspace.com/johnmoxey

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Getting In The Flow

Hey For ages I neglected my guitar. It's a sad story. Well not really. I only picked up my guitar for working through chords for a song I was writing, but very little just to play the guitar. Lately I've been doing a lot more playing the guitar for the guitar's sake. If you know what I mean. I was amazed at just how much the fluidity of my playing had been affected. I played "little Wing" a few weeks ago on my acoustic and was really pleased that I managed to remember it, but on l

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Writing More Lyrics

Hey I've been getting back to writing some lyrics. At the moment I have about twenty songs with incomplete or no lyrics yet. I'm really happy with the musical direction of the songs but getting the lyrics written takes a deliberate effort for me. Music always comes naturally. So now I have melodies and chords and rhythm, and a few ideas and concepts, occasional lines and one or two verse/chorus combos. I know what to do, and how I will do it. Now I just need to get to it My pet h

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Jimi Hendrix

Hey It was a beautiful day, so I took my guitar outside to annoy my neighbours . I strummed through a few tunes and found myself playing Voodoo Chile (slight return). I haven't played it in years. For that matter I rarely play any Hendrix these days. Exploring, as you do, I then remembered "Little Wing". It's an excellent track, and the intro itself illustrates the fluid style that typified Jimi Hendrix style. Jimi used an interesting mix of open voicings, chords and melody all mixed

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Work Up Enthusiasm

I need to get off my ass and start recording. Somehow I just can't get the enthusiasm to get started. I'm usually fine once I start a project, but getting started is another matter. I've got various songs ready for recording, a couple of which aren't much more than acoustic and voice. It should be straight forward, so why can't I get started? Motivation isn't so simple though. What I need is discipline. A schedule to work to. A schedule can be annoying in some ways, but for me the ben

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Writing An Instrumental

It's been ages since I've written an instrumental. I've only written 2 before, and they were for a whole band. With that in mind I've decided to write an instrumental for the guitar. At the moment I'm thinking of using an alternate tuning. I've experimented from time to time with different guitar tunings, but so far I've not written any pieces using anything other than standard tuning. My guitar style does often use a lot of open chords, so I think it should lend to an alternate tuning, but

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Pro Sound Cards

I'm a little out of touch with latest soundcards. My Carillon is now 6 years old. It's got two Creamware sound cards fitted. They've been pretty excellent soundcards, but they are old style pci. Contemplating upgrading my Carillon has of course prompted the question about the latest sound cards. So, I checked out the Creamware range again, but being honest the whole uncertainty over Creamware's future after yet another bankrupcy and take over puts me off. Sure the new companies taking over

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Ray Lamontagne

Hey Just chillin' and listening to the Ray LaMontagne album "Trouble". A great album with some well written songs. Not the happiest of albums, but it does resonate with me in some way. It also reminds me of what can be done with essentially an acoustic and an emotional vocal. It's one of those albums that, for me, evokes a feeling of "you could do this with your own music". If you know what I mean. Not write and record Ray's album, more that if Ray can get an album of this quality out there

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Writing Some New Songs

Hey I've been writing quite a lot lately. I've got about 7 songs with partial lyrics and about 5 new tunes that I think are ready to get some lyrics. It's put me in mind of the problem of selecting suitable topics for a lyric, a subject I've been meaning to write an article about for a while. It's a problem that seems to affect a lot of writers after they get passed the vibrancy of youth and grind to a crawl in their late 20s. I mean once you've notched up some experiience you kind of

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Improve Your Lyric Writing

Hey Lyric writing comes from the heart, but not the heart alone. Writing lyrics uses several aspects of our mind, not just our feelings. Improve Your Lyric Writing Drop by and have a read. Feel free to post any comment in the Music Forum

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