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Great tips from Ted! :-) I do practice some of them but my main method is to use a different instrument for playing. My live electronics, where looping plays a big role, are always the same but I have about half a dozen very different instruments to play as source audio and it never fails to kick you into the zone. One special reason for not experiencing instant inspiration and excitement can be that you are not quite well. Maybe got the flue or migraine or whatever. In this case I stay away from music and do something boring but necessary (got lots of such task on a list since I'm running my own freelance company as occupation) Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Ted Killian <tedkillian@charter.net> wrote: > 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 >