As I continue reading “ Free Play” by Stephen Nachmanovitch, I continue to learn more and more about how to create music and many techniques so one can be a better songwriter. In these four chapters I learned about practice, limitations, mistakes and collaboration. Starting off, I learned that practices shouldn’t be a duty, or as the author explains, “ you don’t have to practice boring exercises, but you do have to practice. Transform it into something that suits you” ( Nachmanovitch, pg 68). Meaning that practice shouldn’t be forced obligation and shouldn’t be boring, on the other hand it should be fun. If technique and practice becomes to boring that we loose the playfulness in music, which we need playfulness to be able to create music.
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It will be very hard to create music. We need to let our imagination be free. We can have minimum of rules because that helps our work more powerful but it shouldn’t be too much.
One of the sections of the book that I found very interesting was The Power of Mistakes. I really like the analogy the author used to explain how mistakes are actually good thing. He describe mistakes a pearl. Mistakes are actually good because it how we grow in life, especially in music. We shouldn’t be upset when we make mistakes instead if we do we should try to use that mistake to make something better. I like this idea, because I sometimes get frustrated when I do mistakes but now with the analogy of the pearl, mistakes do make you better.
On the last section of working with others, I can agree with the author because working with others can help you make your music better but also you can create music together. Having someone hear your music can help you grow and make your music better. I think this is true because then we can see if we have mistakes in the music or try to fix it. When we also work together to create a song, we create mix of styles. Overall, I found these chapters interesting because it gave some way to make you a better
It will be very hard to create music. We need to let our imagination be free. We can have minimum of rules because that helps our work more powerful but it shouldn’t be too much.
One of the sections of the book that I found very interesting was The Power of Mistakes. I really like the analogy the author used to explain how mistakes are actually good thing. He describe mistakes a pearl. Mistakes are actually good because it how we grow in life, especially in music. We shouldn’t be upset when we make mistakes instead if we do we should try to use that mistake to make something better. I like this idea, because I sometimes get frustrated when I do mistakes but now with the analogy of the pearl, mistakes do make you better.
On the last section of working with others, I can agree with the author because working with others can help you make your music better but also you can create music together. Having someone hear your music can help you grow and make your music better. I think this is true because then we can see if we have mistakes in the music or try to fix it. When we also work together to create a song, we create mix of styles. Overall, I found these chapters interesting because it gave some way to make you a better