A Bad Day=A Good Day for Songwriting

So I've been having a bad day since I woke up this morning. Nothing has been going good and things are falling apart around me. I've had these days before and I'm sure I'll have them again. But out of all the shit that goes wrong there is one good thing that comes out of it every time and that is a great song.

Songwriters all over the world are fueled by emotion. Emotions can be good, bad, whatever it may be. Many of the greatest songs are written when someone feels like they have been kicked in the gut twenty times and left there to wallow in their own sorrow.

"You get kicked in the heart by someone who's aware of it or not,
and you get sent alone into a room, and if you have a little bit of
intellect, a little bit of talent and a lot of loneliness, you'll probably
make it."- John Mayer

Mayer really said it best with this one. Mayer is one of my favorite musician/songwriters out there today and I'm sure many others feel the same. I'm not the most talented singer, or guitar player, or songwriter in the world but I know that I do have some talent otherwise I would have quit playing a long time ago. It funny though how when I have a particularly bad day, creativity begins to flow out of me like water over a dam in a flood.

Songwriting is an art form and relating to people is the biggest key in writing something that is meaningful and not a piece of garbage like some of the crap out there today. Whether or not I ever get famous, at least I know that what I am writing is meaningful to at least somebody out there and it helps me vent my frustration so I can move forward.

Many songwriters are like that. We tend to write things about personal experience that hopefully somebody will relate to. Maybe in the next few hours, I might have another song like that to add to my catalog. If anything I do know this, my creativity is flowing like a mother fucker right now so I better end here.

Until next time keep on rocking away music lovers,
JAS