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Improvising vs. composingDan Soltzberg asked: >I've been doing a project, Orange, for a couple years. Tonight, I packed >my gear out of a rehearsal space and turned in my keys after 3 months of struggling with trying to take this improvisational project and make it more structured- i.e., take stuff we'd made up and recorded at various shows and sessions and re-learn it and make a bunch of songs out of it. I just found I wasn't enjoying the process of trying to do this.< Perhaps it's not the song-writing but the compositing process that you're not enjoying. Try another project. Maybe the material will be easier for you to work with. I wouldn't just paste the entire process as something you don't like if it's one job that makes one think this. Um, forgive, no coffee yet. >So it seems I'm no longer very interested in writing and playing songs- what I really get inspired doing is going out on a limb and making the music up as I go. I can't seem to get the kind of spiritual high I get when I'm improvising if I'm playing stuff that's pre-structured. Not that I don't like structure- I just like creating it on the fly. < I concur with Mr. Tobenfield on his other points and won't repeat 'em. I didn't quit being a support person because one of the jobs I did (Hughes! Ugh!) was a Hell-on-Earth. I just went somewhere else to do my thing. So perhaps it's the project you're weary with, not the process itself. Try something else, or perhaps put the instrument down for a week, and then pick it up and see what happens. Things change upon new perspective. Don't give up for a single excuse. Steve Goodman * EarthLight Productions * http://www.earthlight.net