musical creativity & comfort zones
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Comfort and Confidence
• Makes a musician sound musically competent
• Makes each note sound purposeful(defined)
• (+) Creates space for adding entertainment to the performance
The Comfort Zone that One Develops is Dependent on:
• How one discovers & learns an instrument
• Where one is from
• The music one listens to
• Lessons: learnt scales & chords
Creativity Inside of these Zones
• Familiar/Comfortable Shapes & Familiar/Comfortable Patterns
• Preference in Techniques
Creativity Outside of One’s Comfort Zones
Outside playing :
• Freeform – Think Freeform Jazz
• Tension
• Pushing on Potential Techniques(new)
Inside/Outside playingBenefits
• Fresh sounds produced by raising and reducing tension.
• Allows someone who has no idea what he or she is doing and still sound like he or she does. (Refer back to “musically competent.”)
Greg Howe and Dynamics
• Build awareness of different styles of playing
• “Organize” these styles
• Or pick one and build intensity/tension