>I do however like the idea of augmenting insturments to make them easier to play, I'm personally guitly of having many potential songs in my head but not havin

>I do however like the idea of augmenting insturments to make them easier to play, I'm personally guitly of having many potential songs in my head but not having near enough the skill to execute them. Yeah, we've been doing that for a while with music tech starting from basic sequencers, arpeggiators and looper pedals, down to programmable automatic accompaniment on keyboard workstations (you press a chord -- or even one or two keys -- and the virtual band is playing the backing track in the right key). Anyway, for your problem of having songs in your head: hum them into a portable recorder (cell phone/whatever) whenever you have an idea. At home, try to pick up the melody on an instrument that you can play. With software, record the melody to a click track/metronome. If you can figure out the chords, layer them on top. There are plenty of drum loops lying around. Boom! You've transformed an idea into something others can listen. IIRC that's how Michael Jackson composed. And if you can't play an instrument, you can hum to a friend who can play, and figure out things together. It really works!