How did you get started with song writing?
Good question. From about the age of eight we had an old Spanish guitar in the house. I remember trying to make up tunes on it and recording into a tape recorder. I’ve always loved singing and at twelve got my first acoustic guitar for a birthday present. I taught myself to play using the ‘Guitar Case Chord’ and really enjoyed making up songs. Then at fourteen my friend Mark Roach got a rolland drum machine and we wrote a song called ‘Monkey in the Meadow.’ Mark was dismayed to find that I had deleted the song off the tape recorder after he announced that we may be called to perform on Top of The Pops. Of course he was only joking, lol. Those were the days!
I became a Christian at eighteen and started playing guitar in the Church at St. John’s in Woodley. When I started, I could only play one or two chords like A, D, G but soon picked up more chords from others in the band and from my Guitar Case Chord Book.
I was hurt in a car accident at nineteen and with the insurance money bought my first keyboard, an Akai AX80, Drum Machine Alexis 16 bit and Akai four track tape recorder. I spent hours recording my ideas and wrote a ballad called By our Side for a lady in our church who was ill. I’ve been in and out of song writing since then and more recently my friend Sam Millar has inspired me to record once again. In 2011 I recorded Find Another Dream and Find A Reason. I try to write songs that are an encouragement to others
I now use Logic to record but before that I used Garageband and a great piece of demo writing software called Song Factory by http://www.notoriousnotes.com It’s great because you just write the song chords and record your vocal line. You can have quite a professional sounding demo completed in a couple of hours.
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