After we talked about boosting and exercising our creativity at the last meeting, I came across another interesting article in my email about the same topic: More Steps To Better Creativity
Nice find! I think I've noticed that kind of thing before, but have never purposely sought to employ such a technique - but it does seem that if I'm struggling with continuing a musical idea and then I don't have time to return to it for a few days, I discover more ideas when returning from that little break.
This phenomenon actually stands out to me a lot more with piano practicing ... I was actually discussing it with my teacher yesterday during my lesson. It's interesting that after a break from practicing, we can return to our pieces and after a couple of practices or so play them even better than we did before!
But anyway, this would be an interesting thing to try to purposely schedule for with composing...
Nice find! I think I've noticed that kind of thing before, but have never purposely sought to employ such a technique - but it does seem that if I'm struggling with continuing a musical idea and then I don't have time to return to it for a few days, I discover more ideas when returning from that little break.
ReplyDeleteThis phenomenon actually stands out to me a lot more with piano practicing ... I was actually discussing it with my teacher yesterday during my lesson. It's interesting that after a break from practicing, we can return to our pieces and after a couple of practices or so play them even better than we did before!
But anyway, this would be an interesting thing to try to purposely schedule for with composing...