[Growing As A Writer]

Well, there it is!

I am naturally and organically of late looking at my lyrics - or some lyrics - wondering not

"SHOULD I make this more universally appealing?" but rather "HOW can I make this more

universally appealing while retaining the personal meaning and lyrical style characteristic

of the real writing me?"

It does not freak me out, and I do not fear at all selling out. Time...that great friend of time

and experience in songwriting has shown me I can be as quirky & stylistically myself as anyone.

It's just not an issue!

I have to laugh...this is a freeing experience. What the H was I so worried about before?

Because what I'd the most experience in previously was...Everything Had To Stand As Is.

I like this newer thing much better.

Anyone else go through this?

-D-

i think that, although making a song appealing to as many people as you can, the personal meaning and content should always remain core to the writer's intentions whatever the song is about there will always be someone somewhere experiencing it and being able to relate to it and so you are bringing that happiness of songwriting to somebody and to be honest being able to make just another feel like that then i'm happy but thats just me!

[whos your favorite singer and WHY!!??]

interested to know.. whats your favorite singers and why? - not from an overall frontman point, but the actual voice..

personally i'm fed up with most up and comming rock bands with the ra ra ra or whining screamo crapola. - rob halford is my current favorite due to his range and power.. perhaps not so much his tone - but he is a damn impressive hard rock singer by all accounts.

JAMES HETFIELD! Sorry but his vocal skills are fantastic, not too screamo, just a hard aggressive rock voice but with a subtle gentle quality to it

[Do you warm up?]

Hey

Do you any of you do any warm up vocal exercises? If you do, what do you do? If not, do you have a reason?

Cheers

John

just generally have a cold drink and hum the first song i will sing