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  • Original Song – Gratitude

    Posted by N-lightMike on June 26, 2022 at 10:43 pm

    I played this song at the Scones VOM this past Thursday. This was the first song I wrote, but it just wasn’t right and I tried rewriting is several times. Finally, someone helped me to fix it. Turns out, it was the rhythm and tempo that were wrong. When that was right, I went back to the original words with some minor edits, plus a different chord progression for the verses and a little bridge.

    I know that I can learn to play this smoother, but for now, this is the best I got and I am proud of it.

    https://youtu.be/-pVfu0jyVtM

    MG 😀

    N-lightMike replied 3 years, 9 months ago 5 Members · 9 Replies
  • 9 Replies
  • stevieblues

    Member
    June 28, 2022 at 4:53 pm

    Very nice song MikeGaurnier! 👏🎸😎 It sounds like you really worked hard on this song. Keep up the great work! Thanks for sharing your song. 👏🎸😎

    • N-lightMike

      Member
      June 29, 2022 at 2:01 am

      Thank you, @stevieblues . I am glad you liked this song.

      And yes, I have put in a lot of time on this project over a 2 year period to finally come up with this finished song. But, I wrote a number of other songs during that time. And the efforts on just this song have resulted in 2 finished songs and several other song ideas or you might call them songs in the works. On top of all that, finally getting a song I liked out of that first song really taught me a lot about song writing. I have heard the advice to just crank out the songs and some of them will be good. I have the experience now to disagree heartily. Put the effort in to make every song you write a good one. That will make you better. I have written more than a song a month for the last 4 months. That’s amazing to me.

      MG 😀

  • Marty75

    Member
    June 29, 2022 at 7:55 am

    👍🍸👍😎

    • N-lightMike

      Member
      June 29, 2022 at 11:26 am

      Thank you @Marty69 . I appreciate your support.
      MG 😀

  • RealKurt

    Member
    June 29, 2022 at 1:08 pm

    Bravo, keep on writing Mike!!! 👏👏👏

    Love me song singe/songwriters!!!

    • N-lightMike

      Member
      June 30, 2022 at 12:40 am

      Thank you so much, @RealKurt . It means so much from someone who writes as well as you do.

      MG 😀

  • Gere C

    Member
    June 29, 2022 at 1:39 pm

    Great job. Thanks for posting. Keep writing. No apologies allowed. You’re doing great.

    • N-lightMike

      Member
      June 30, 2022 at 12:42 am

      Wow, thanks @Gere C , for the compliments. And yeah, ok, no more apologies. 😁😎

      MG 😀

  • Gere C

    Member
    June 29, 2022 at 1:40 pm

    😀

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