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Feb 2 2009, 06:44 PM
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Well i'm afraid liek most things, practice is the only answer. You just need to keep writing until you start producing stuff you are happy with.
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Feb 2 2009, 06:54 PM
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As you can't play with others at the mo Steve I'd suggest that you play over a variety of backing tracks- don't just play the established solo though, improvise and experiment. Record what you're doing and then listen to it critically to see what worked and what didn't, then from your theory knowledge work out why.
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Feb 2 2009, 06:56 PM
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Could you tell me what your strong points in theory would be?
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Feb 2 2009, 06:58 PM
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Inspiration is important, and learning songs by ear or from tabs can give you many new structure/riff/solo-ideas.
When you have a riff for your song and don't know how to continue from that, just take a moment and think how you would like to continue. Do you want another riff here? or maybe a solo-part? Developing riff ideas is very good, because when you have many riffs just waiting in your head, you can take them and structure them to a song. So my advice would be to just keep learning new songs from your favourite bands (this helps you to learn more about song structures and it also develops your technique and gives you inspiration) and keep developing those riff ideas of yours. And for the soloing part, try creating some of your own rhythm parts that you wanna do some soloing over. Remember, the most important aspect of becoming a better songwriter, is to just create new material and you will develop over time. 
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Feb 2 2009, 07:16 PM
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Yeah, i guess.. I don't know it just all seems so confusing
 . I've been playing guitar 3 years as of this month and that seems to be the only thing that hasn't got better
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Feb 2 2009, 07:46 PM
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Gift is a myth:)
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Feb 2 2009, 07:54 PM
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David Walliman gave us a good site with some wisdoms about musicians, and there I've seen a cool statement by Michael Jackson. He said:" Lot of the songs you write are just exercise, pencil sharpeners." I think this says a lot about composing which basically is a learning process. Nobody can learn composing or have a talent and that's it. The songs that you have already made and you didn't like are not out of the window. It all adds to your overall experience, so I think doing a bad song has it's positive sides as well. Of course you loose some time, but you learn what "won't pass" for the next time.
So my suggestion is to cheer up, and just keep composing the songs, eventually you will become better and better and be able to write very good songs. Just take your time, and compose one song every once in a while. You don't need to do a technically demanding song, just start simple and go from there. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Feb 2 2009, 10:55 PM
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It'll be a bit embarassing but ok i'll get working on it
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Feb 2 2009, 10:58 PM
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Cool!1 Won't be embarrasing at all
 It's brave, for anyone to show their music, because it's a piece of themselve.
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