Hi all.
My name is Jim and I’m an alcoh.. oops, wrong forum!
It does feel a little like that actually, admitting to an addiction. The urge to create something new – music wise – has always been with me and unfortunately has surpassed and supressed my musical ability. I’ve never wanted to learn other peoples songs or play guitar like so and so, I have tuition books which I’ve never read, I’ve always just wanted to discover my own thing and that’s made it a very shallow learning curve for me. I can’t tell you what key a song is in and I don’t even know what a lot of the chords I play are called as I’ve just found them through happy accident.
As a kid I tried learning Beatles songs but I just annoyed people because I’d change the words and tune to what I wanted them to be – Nobody wants to hear that.
So, for the last 30 years I’ve been making my own songs up and playing them for myself, then losing interest in them and then forgetting them. I’ve never had any desire to perform or share, I’ve only ever done this for me.
But recently I’ve tried recording stuff and found that I have to write stuff down or I’ll change it each time, so that forces a more discipline which is good, but when I listen back it’s really hard to be objective about stuff. It’s obvious to me that I’ve loads of room for improvement in all areas, but I think I need feedback…
Now I’ve discovered this lovely place
I’m particularly impressed with the way you don’t allow people to post and run, it’s clearly vital in making this place function as a proper online community. Although listening to the songs here the standard is so high it is a little intimidating – I don’t really feel qualified to critique.
I’d better get back to work now, I’ll come by later to have another listen and try to find something more useful to say than ‘Wow, great song’.
Hmm, was I supposed to write an essay or was I just meant to say hi?
Hi, my name’s Jim.
