Painfulhead

Mike great thoughts in your reply post and a great way to build a working catalog... "First, capture the material"..i find that any kind of 'loop' helps me a lot. With a loop I can lay a tempo and work from there, when it feels right hit save, and start another loop. On higher end 'loopers' there is a memory card and you can throw it all on the drive and build a catalog of ideas. I like this for fast changes and I have a bit of A.D.D. so mid idea I can save and come back to it later. This lends its self to guitar but can apply to all. I just found out about the app. LOOPY for i phone. 3 dollars gets you a 6 bank looper that is great for idea capture and has some great features. As for instrumental song writing a strong hook is very important, after you have that hint at it and very or augment it. Pain after reading the last line i was tempted to edit it out, seems over simplified.

if you look under the members heading you will see the band name and members. marks solo stuff is where the Hazzy comes from. all songs other then live tracks and a few old 4 track recordings are products of our band owned studio and feature all or some band members on recordings. all self recorded, engineered, mastered. thanks for the welcome

my musical history starts and remains tied to two of my high school friends, we met in the early 1980's. i started to play bass with drummer (brian) and musical mentor songwritter/guitarist (mark) in 1991. this started "the Surahoolies" an all original band with over a hundred original tunes and we still jam to this day, same 7 piece band with all the same members: as a second guitarist/violinist, two percussion players, and a flut/accordian where added in 1992. i look forward to hearing members thoughts on some of the Surahoolies tunes. Mark has put some of them on reverb nation if anyone is interested. i can elaborate if asked untill i leave you with a link and a tune suggestion. song to check out is "SKULL AND BONES" http://www.reverbnation.com/hazzytunes