On Monday 01 May 2006 03:19 pm, Folderol wrote: > It is a real struggle for me to achieve anything at all with this. > I seem to have a complete musical deaf spot when it comes to > percussion and have to do a lot of work for many hours to get > anything even remotely presentable. The result is it always tends > to sound rather laboured. Why do you have to have a percussion track? Leave it out if you like, I do. I prefer ballads and melodies. I'm not a dancer. So percussion has no appeal for me. Focus on where your natural talents and interests lie and leave the rest to someone else. That's what corraborations are for! HTH Stephen.