Creating a Creative Style
Posted by Qrystal on February 12, 2009 at 3:29.
Category: Concepts. Tags: creativity, guitar, music.
I think any creative activity is in fact a learning process. Musical performance is included in this, by the way, because you have to create your particular style of playing. You’re always trying to develop and move forwards…
I agree so much with what Tim says in this blog post, I just had to blog about it.
I mostly just want to say that it’s been difficult for me to “let go” and find my own style of playing some of the songs that I cover on guitar, but it’s so important to do so. Since I’ve realized this, my enjoyment of playing has gone up …hundredfold, at least, if only because that’s a cool word to be able to use in a sentence.
As for having actual “cycles” of creative activity, I can only hope that someday I figure out whether there is some periodicity to the benefits! As it stands, it seems more like the interest in each activity comes and goes as a wave… with each wave having its own frequency… or maybe the frequency itself is chaotic, depending on many other variables….
Human nature is so difficult to pin down. ;)