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Happened across a Radio 4 program a week or two back where they were talking to one of the musicians who played on David Bowie's Hero's album. The gist of the conversation was about Brian Eno's passion for using cards with small random "strategies" printed on them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/sep/07/oblique-strategies
During the recording he would ask each musician to take a card then play accordingly the next take without telling each other what the card said, difficult to explain so I suggest a quick google.
This got me thinking about recovering that lost mojo a common topic here, only this week I had an epiphany brought about by members of this forum -
"try something you had previously discounted"
If it is not a breach of copyright I though we could borrow the idea and taylor it for Saxophone and come up with a few one liners of our own. Then if you need to add some spark to your practice dip in and perform accordingly, I am sure the more experience members must have some quite wacky ideas.;}
How about "change location" if you always practice in the same room then move to a different one, I used to teach illustration to MSC students and if I ever had to say something negative to a student I would always make sure the student was not at their desk when I said it, that way the brain did not connect the place with the feeling and stifle creativity.
I suspect I could be talking nonsense, it is after all getting to the end of a week of night shifts, the hot weather and a lack of sleep may be warping my fragile mind.
Happened across a Radio 4 program a week or two back where they were talking to one of the musicians who played on David Bowie's Hero's album. The gist of the conversation was about Brian Eno's passion for using cards with small random "strategies" printed on them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/sep/07/oblique-strategies
During the recording he would ask each musician to take a card then play accordingly the next take without telling each other what the card said, difficult to explain so I suggest a quick google.
This got me thinking about recovering that lost mojo a common topic here, only this week I had an epiphany brought about by members of this forum -
"try something you had previously discounted"
If it is not a breach of copyright I though we could borrow the idea and taylor it for Saxophone and come up with a few one liners of our own. Then if you need to add some spark to your practice dip in and perform accordingly, I am sure the more experience members must have some quite wacky ideas.;}
How about "change location" if you always practice in the same room then move to a different one, I used to teach illustration to MSC students and if I ever had to say something negative to a student I would always make sure the student was not at their desk when I said it, that way the brain did not connect the place with the feeling and stifle creativity.
I suspect I could be talking nonsense, it is after all getting to the end of a week of night shifts, the hot weather and a lack of sleep may be warping my fragile mind.
