Ramonaji...
"My whole life I've wanted to do this, but it wasn't my primary focus. Now I've got a CD of my songs I can listen to! What an amazing program. "

You are right this is what its all about.

I am now rediscovering music and programs like GB are helping with that. Of course there is loads to learn but without GB and the like I'd never start.

Macmusicmaker-
Everyone starts from somewhere. You were n't born knowing it all and I'm sure your still learning. So what if people put together a song and call themselves musicians. They are. For example you learn to boil an egg; can you run a restaurant no, but can you cook yes.

I agree there is a disctinion between professional and amateur, but you where an amateur once... and to some musicians you still are and even if you are what is wrong with music for fun anyway or is that not allowed?

I just learnt about i vi V the other day (probably funny to you but like I said there was a day that you didn't know what that was either) then yesterday I learnt about ii V i which helped me with a song I was writing. It never occurred to me that there was more than i vi v. I was having so much fun with it. Then I read Jazzology a brilliant book by the way if a bit heavy, but hey I'm taking my time with it and discovered ii V i and the tonic, subdominant and dominants. I guess what I am trying to say is now I want to learn more before I didn't and as long as I keep learning, reading and most importantly playing the easier it is for me to get ideas that are running round my head out. Am I a professional musician? no, Am I a musician? yes.

What would be more useful is to say hey have a look at this book or listen to this album or here is a principle you can learn try that in you GB which was the point of the post in the first place. I have been looking at that magic garage band wondering what it was for... guess what when I get home I'm gonna mess around with it I know a blues in A (i vi v right).

Who was that composer who was writing stuff when he was a toddler? Bet he should have gone to music college!!

My main point just in case you missed it was You don't own creativity, you may be able to structure what you have learnt but anyone who has heard music and hums along has ideas running round their head... improvisations etc... sure you have a course that structures and channels that creativity but I think it is rude to assume that no one else has.