Originally Posted by: JeffS65
I think the thing that killed me was trying to find a distinct, different riff to squish in to the song. So I stopped. I stopped thinking of riffs and just opened up my head to what the song needed irrespective of what the guitar needed.

Maybe I am trying too hard to conform to certain ideas. The songs I have that seem to work the best are ones where I did not try for anything. They flowed and transitions just happened. If they had a bridge, they had a bridge, and I did not go back to add things I thought were "supposed" to be there.

I guess I'm in this idea that I think I should be writing more musically complicated songs and trying to force something into them.

Thanks for the response!