I think the most important thing said was ‘you’ve got to write thousands of songs, most of them are duds, and then you get one that sounds good. Then the next one isn’t . The way to learn how to write good music is by writing, listening to understand why something works and why something does not.’ Sadly it’s the same with anything. You don’t practice until you get it right, you practice until you simply can’t get it wrong.

@Clifton Duncan there is something to be said for get a DAW and stick to that version. Don’t change things that are not broken if you don’t need to. Every change introduces a new set of changes be it bugs or sometimes even fixes that now need to be accounted for. Case example. I wrote my first song in 2023 and saved the all the work. Then in 2025 you asked for the stems of that song.. I couldn’t read my old backups, so I restored the logic files. They were from logic 10 but now I was using 11. Still couldn’t open them because I was getting an error. Turned out one had upgraded from ver3 to a ver4 and kept crashing the file open with a misleading error about upgrading version. I eventually had to load the old version of logic to get the correct error message to find a pirate copy of the ver3 plugin to export the sound setting file so I could reload it back into the owned ver4 instrument. Sometimes changes can cause unexpected errors or issues.

let us know if you get it to work as it looks like nobody seems to be booking mentor calls any more. I remember last year on the old system there were lots of mentor calls being made that you could watch. Now it seems like the mentors have no work. it's hard to even find a mentor that appears to have a booked session in the next 4 weeks. So either no member wants to book, or nobody has figured out how to

@Ari Tiainen i noticed the same thing. He was a great mentor who I have learnt quite a bit from over the past year watching his sessions. I don't know if they are bringing in another mentor

I thought about it and decided that perhaps it's best to wipe the slate clean. so I threw away all the past baggage and will start from fresh. go back to the beginning of the course and start from there. a Clean outlook. took all my past music, and put it into the trash can and hit empty. if I look at old projects never finished and even the ones that were done, that is just a reminder path back to me in 2025. perhaps I should even just delete my distrokid and remove the music streamed too, to be complete

thank you for the heads up. I will try and make it. put it into my calendar to remind myself. a good reason get out of spending time with family.

I must apologize. I really wanted to make it today but it seemed weather and health had a different path for me. I hope it went well. thank you so much for offering your time to us on this platform.