Brian,

I assume you are referring to questions 5 & 18. Just a couple of quick comments. When I reviewed the threads to determine the most commonly asked questions, I did not filter them for genre or specific subject matter for inclusion or exclusion. I noted them only by their intrinsic content. Also, Country music is the only mainstream music, of which I know, that so tightly constrains their requirements of "newbies", aspiring compoasers/writers, to proscribed formulae and tolerate little or no deviance if you want their ear. If I were to remove the reference to "Country Music" in those two questions, they would have sigificantly reduced relevance. And those two questions were asked multiple times, in form or another. The intent is not to focus on one genre or group per se; but to respond to the questions as asked, in the context of the inquiry. So, as I previously mentioned, if the reference to the Country Music genre is excluded, then the questions as whole should be removed. Personally, I feel they should remain because we do have so many participants on the boards who write and/or perform in that particular genre. I realize that the active forum participants are just a small part of the total JPF membership. But, those who do participate on the forums on a regular basis represent the target audience for this project; at least that was my impression. Just my thoughts.

Al