Re: Reconnect with your music.

[Ted Killian <tedkillian@charter.net>]

Strategies for recharging one's musical creative batteries:

1). Change you listening habits, perhaps by listening to something really 
different and unfamiliar and try to learn to feel, analyze, understand, 
and even enjoy it from the inside out. Get inspired.

2). Attend a live performance of someone really, really good, but outside 
your own musical domain and (similarly to #1) try to learn to feel, 
analyze, and understand it from the inside out. Get inspired.

3). Play with new people - this should be obvious - either ones that are 
much, much better than you, or ones that are not yet at your level, either 
way can have benefits (learning or teaching).

4). Get outside, mow the lawn, paint the fence, plant a tree, rake the 
leaves, even just taking a walk can change one's outlook and perspective. 

5). Stimulate the mind with other ideas and/or other input, go to a 
museum, read a book recommended by someone, turn off the TV and internet 
and visit an antique store, read a magazine or newspaper from 50+ years 
ago, or to radio in a different language than the one you speak.

6). Visit a different neighborhood, perhaps even a place of worship other 
than one you might ever frequent - not as a believer, seeker or joiner, 
nor especially as a critic, but as a respectful observer of humanity in 
all it's forms. Pay special attention to music and other ambient sounds in 
these places.

I am sure there are others, but one or another of these always seem to 
work for me.

Ted

On Apr 6, 2012, at 10:02 PM, Gmail wrote:

> How many of us have those dry seasons where feeling just isn't there? 
> Where music feels like a day to day, routine, non-profit job rather than 
> an experience? What's your method of bringing rain to those emotionless 
> droughts?
> 
> Kaylon