hideing your love

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Weighed Down Blues

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Inconcert 2

Simply Mike V will be performing at Castaway Bar&Grill at 3140 moreland ave, Conly Ga, 30288 on July 23rd 2010 show starts around 8pm

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God made everything

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jazz track

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This one of my jazz tracks

The Christian Song Writer

I,m sure I am not the only Christian song writer who had to face the age old conflict, do I just write and perform Gospel music? or can I do secular music as well and not get kicked out the church? First of all God dose know your heart and all gifts do come from God, and we should create Gospel music and music that has a good message, Ill be the first to say that yes I have wrote lyrics that I might have been better off not writing and I can say at the moment that,s how I was feeling or I just thought it would be a cool song, and I did not mean any harm.I don,t feel that you need to use bad words in your music to make a point.From my point of view I can only create a song at this point in my life that will tell a story in a classy way and one of my plans for 2010 is to add more Gospel music to my Body of works because my gift did come from God and he gets the glory.

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Song writing and time management

One must view song writing as a everyday mission, time must be set aside to write a song and you should be careful about writing the same song over and over, it is important to explore new subjects, The amount of time one has to write a song may vary depending on your needs if your holding down a full time job and trying break into the music industry then the time you do set aside for writing could be a few hours after work or before, but you never know when the song will come, that is why it is good to keep a pad and pen close to you at all times, There are love songs and songs that make you think, party songs and songs that address problems that the world faces, Sometime it is important to change your whole style of writing, the bottom line is this you never have enough songs in the song bank there is always room for one more!

Just Need My Acoustic

I think it is time to move into a new direction for 2010, I think now I will just focus on acoustic song writing and say good by to the band format maybe that is what I am suppose to do anyway! the challenge will be to take all of currently released songs and converting them to acoustic format, that will be exciting.Ill probuly use a version of the 12 bar blues pattern, of course slightly changed to fit my needs. When I think about it I can get up and running a lot quicker as a solo guitarist then trying put a band together. I am ready to hit the stage and hit it hard, with the indie music frame of mind, got more then enough music, all I need now is to make few upgrades in gear, I like my acoustic guitar ant no need

My Music Gear

My pedels are a Ibanez overdrive and a wash burn blues overdrive, that I like vary much
I also play a Ibanez Artcore Af750 hollow body electric guitar, I love that guitar and my acoustic guitar is a Yamaha fg700z

Dont throw it away !

No matter what you write,  don,t throw it away!

you might find a few verses in one song ,that go better

with another song, or a verse you can build on in

one song that might have ran into a road block.

remember to practice with some type  of

recording to device , u never know were the next

song will come from.