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Make your songs as easy for your potential listeners as possible.

Pretty good advice — and surprising how many songwriters don’t follow it.

I’ve sat through enough workshops and seminars through the years to realize that many artists think that obscurity makes them seem deep. Or maybe they try to camoflage their lack of ideas, musicality or originality in (what basically amounts to) dreck.

You can learn a lot of things about songwriting over at Corey Stewart Songwriting Tips.

He currently has an article by Sheena Metal which outlines some of the barriers that songwriters put up and how you can remove them from your audiences way.

WADE

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Back when war was popular — the WWII era up to the Eisenhower administration — Captain America was our national superhero.  And the bad guys were the Commies — they were EVERYWHERE.  Fortunately we had Richard Nixon there to sniff them out (this was before he became president).

Anticipating the new movie reviving Cappy (as he is fondly called), Golden Age of Comic Books has reprints of his classic adventures available for you to enjoy.

So go enjoy!

WADE

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First you learn some basic chords — maybe the C-A-G-E-D system.

Then you put them together in some kind of chord progression, like I-IV-V7

Then you will start wanting to play some lead licks or simple melodies.

If you are at that stage, go over to Ultimate Guitar — there is some guidance on playing simple melodies over common chords.

WADE

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Yngwie J. Malmsteen, that is.  Is there any other?  The Swedish guitarist is known for his sweep picking and tapping.

Yngwie J. MalmsteenIt’s not easy, and it doesn’t sound real easy, either.

If you’re interested in some basic techniques, jump over to Ultimate Guitar and start digesting.  There’s a lot of stuff there — but it’s only scratching the surface.

Hey, yeah!  Let’s learn scratching as well as tapping.  Maybe next lesson.

WADE

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Are you better at starting songs than finishing them?

Is songwriting a “necessary evil?”

Do you get stuck and give up — at least from time to time.

You need to check out the latest posting at Ultimate Guitar.  There are some suggestions on how to keep your momentum going when you seem to be spinning your wheels.

WADE

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