Daves Strumming hand

[onid41]

i love dave

[Senior Gomez]

ok everyone, agree to dissagree!

I think and hope at the rate that im going at in one more year ill be playing dave alot better. cuz a year ago i couldnt play sweet home alabama, the D to C thing in the beginnig. hahaha

how many years has dave been playing?

[bngholio14]

You can write however you want, but don't expect to get anywhere with it. And I can understand if you don't care if you go anywhere it. That's fine. Copy Dave if it pleases you. But I think most of my rant emerged from the ridiculous number of bands imitating Dave and then bothering to charge a price while hunting around for a manager with that already-done (and done right) bullshit. And you're not going to improve as a musician, either. So don't expect to.

But if you're okay with that, fine, play nothing but Dave's songs and sit in your room trying to write like him.

How else are people to write, if not writing how they want? Do you write how somebody else wants you to and is that how you expect to get somewhere?

[Davy28]

Just use him as an influence but not a copy.

[lyrics101]

You can write however you want, but don't expect to get anywhere with it. And I can understand if you don't care if you go anywhere it. That's fine. Copy Dave if it pleases you. But I think most of my rant emerged from the ridiculous number of bands imitating Dave and then bothering to charge a price while hunting around for a manager with that already-done (and done right) bullshit. And you're not going to improve as a musician, either. So don't expect to.

But if you're okay with that, fine, play nothing but Dave's songs and sit in your room trying to write like him.

How else are people to write, if not writing how they want? Do you write how somebody else wants you to and is that how you expect to get somewhere?

You basically just reiterated what I said. If you try to write to sound like Dave, you're writing how Dave wants to write, even if it is how you, too, want to write.

I'm just saying that if you copy somebody else's style, sure, that'll please you, but you're not going to improve much as a songwriter or a musician.