Is musical intelligence a double-edged sword?
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Writing good songs takes a lot of practice and experience, but if you don't have that experience, it can be difficult to know what to practice. Fortunately, most new songwriters tend to make the same kinds of mistakes, especially if you're willing to overlook certain details, so today I thought I'd offer some advice on how to deal with this which is, I think, one of the most common mistakes: trying to be too smart. It's a really tempting trap, and one we all fall into at one point or another in our development, but with a little attention to detail, it's really not that difficult to escape. You just have to realize that you do it first.

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