How can I compose good songs with my acoustic guitar?

listen to bob dylan and neil young, also get some joni mitchell sheet music.

well, what you want to do is directly related to music theory (ie. chord progressions, intervals, scales.) Study it for a while and you while be able to create songs much easier.

Give Stan the points...a great answer. The only thing that I would add is that writing songs is no different than learning how to play your instrument....it takes practice. You're going to write a lot of stuff that stinks, and then one day you're going to come up with something pretty good. Hang in there. Greetings from Austin, TX Ken

learn your scales so you know what chords and notes go along with one another learn and memorize the relative major to every minor chord, and vice versa it helps so much

Please...if you have any respect for guitar and guitar players....you will NOT learn scales. http://www.guitaralliance.com/guitar_lessons/discover_the_fretboard/notes_on_the_fretboard.htm there is a complete list of the notes on the fretboard. If you want to find A-minor look in between A and B on any string. Say it was on the top E string A-minor would be on the 6th fret between the A and the B. Also....whatever chord you turn off of from your chord progression......say you were doing A G A G then you would want to start the riff you do after the chord progression with a G, which in most cases is easiest to find on the D string on fret five. if you have any more questions you can e-mail me at [email protected]