Another Blog about John Mayer

This is more about writing music though, with a video of john mayer proving why I'm so bad at it.

I've been playing music since 7th, 8th grade somewhere around there, and whenever I start writing something, I always give up after I try the first thing. I think, 'nah, this isn't working' and I give up. And I'm watching this video of John Mayer working on a new song. And he's starting off, and he's like here's what I have so far, and I'm thinking to myself... this is kind of weak, I don't dig it. He then layers another vocal harmony and I'm like, okay this isn't as bad as I thought... after the 4th thing he does at the end of the video, and only 2 minutes worth of messing around, he's made it sound totally different.

I think this just boils down to me not having the patience to be good at this. I'm a "now" type person and when I don't see immediate results, I kind of give up. That's why playing with Matt was so beneficial, he did all this work, he sat and wrecked his brain to put together a shell for us to come into and noodle over to make catchy ass songs. After he left, even though I was surrounded by some pretty talented people (and dave), I tried really hard to accomplish this.

I think we actually did get there with one of the new songs, but because of my personality, Brad bails and I just think that I can't keep going on like this. I'm tired of playing in a band where all we do is try out new people. But I do miss it, I miss this part of it... even though I wasn't good at it, I miss it. Much more then I do playing shows. And that's weird to me, because I've always thought of myself as the show guy in the band. I wasn't one for studio work, I was all about sharing the music with people, and not so much arguing of the amount of measures before a bridge. Once I finish school and have a bit more time, I hope I can revist this stuff again and see if I can get passed this wall of mine and make some cool shit up... even without anyone around me that can sing worth a damn.