Jun 29, 2006 14:24
After long last and several failed attempts, I have finally written a song! It is not an especially good song, but I wrote it and I like it. I have failed so many times before at writing songs that I had dispaired of ever finishing one, but I have done it. I started out writing my song with my banjo and I wrote the first part of the verse, and I just played the melody with paralell sixths and a some strings as drones. But then I did something so stupid that I have never done it in 9 years of playing guitars and changing strings. I was clipping the excess strings of my banjo, but I clipped the wrong part and cut the D string and it snapped off like a steel rubber band. But it turned out alright because the riff that I wrote works well on a guitar too, and then I wrote the rest of the song on guitar, which I probably couldn't have done on a banjo.
Unfortunately my banjo is still missing a very important string.