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Why your best ideas usually start as bad ones | Think Like A Musician
Why your best ideas usually start as bad ones | Think Like A Musician
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It's a cliché to say that mistakes, imperfections make something special,
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but they really, really do.
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In art, embrace mistakes.
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The mistake is the journey.
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And it’s you getting better because your voice probably won’t crack there
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the next time— it’s just another moment to pivot from.
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So never freak out about making mistakes, is really what it boils down to.
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Hey, you! Yes, you. Is there music inside of you?
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We’ve recruited working musicians from throughout the industry
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to help you hear it, hold it, and share it with this wild and wonderful world.
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At least for me, from between the studio and a live situation,
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some of the adjustment for me means like letting go
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of a type of obsessive perfectionism
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about the sound quality and also in performance,
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being willing to fall down and get dirty or make mistakes.
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My first songs, my early songs are pretty embarrassing,
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but I think I was just kind of figuring it out.
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And I was really literally just taking the poems that I had written,
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which were kind of cryptic and a little bit dark
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because I was like a moody adolescent,
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and putting them to melodies.
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But I hadn’t really learned the importance of song structure.
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It started out as a very personal outlet for me.
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And then later I sort of learned how to write something that was more accessible,
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that people could understand where I was coming from,
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and maybe get some catharsis out of that.
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You don’t just automatically jump immediately to perfection.
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That's what's so great about experimentation.
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What I’ve loved about collaborating with other songwriters and musicians
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is I hear them come out with some not so great ideas,
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some pretty lousy ideas.
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And I realized that they will come up with eight lousy ideas or even like 15,
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and the 16th or 20th or 30th idea,
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suddenly it’s like, that is brilliant!
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And the listener will never know of the other 30 lousy ideas that it took
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to finally come to a sense of clarity and something locking in.
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That’s not right. That’s not right. This is right! There it is.
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But you have to be willing to let it come out.
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Out of the thousands of songs you write, maybe five might be a hit. Maybe.
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You’re really, really lucky as a songwriter
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if you get a number one record one time.
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You could literally start at any age, you could literally not be able to sing,
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but as long as you understand what your thing is,
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there is no one type of way to songwrite or to produce
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or to do any of these things.
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There’s no right way. It’s, what is my way?
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And then I find the appropriate people to collaborate with
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to make this a well-rounded thing, because that is what our industry is about,
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is collaboration.
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Mark D. Sanders, he’s a writer in Nashville,
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he said to me once, songwriting is like fishing.
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He said, you can stand in the water days on end and get nothing.
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Or you can stand in the water for four seconds
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and catch the biggest fish you’ve ever caught in your entire life.
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He goes, it’s not the outcome, it’s that you’re in the water.
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So, if you think of songwriting and sessions as a fishing expedition,
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you can sit out there for hours and it wasn’t the day for it.
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Or you can sit out there for no time and you had a great day.
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So it’s very much just like a thing you do every day
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for the sake of the great ones that might happen today
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and might happen a week from now.
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When I was young, I do remember those songs just [snaps].
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And there's another and another and another, and it still happens.
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But after however many hundreds of songs,
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it becomes new you versus old you
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saying something that you’ve said from an entirely different perspective.
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So as far as locking into a song
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and knowing when you’ve found the song’s proper path,
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if I was going to, not advise, but opine,
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I would say break all the rules.
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Run through all the walls and do not conform.
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And last but not least, sometimes we don't know our best work.
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I’ve put songs away that I’ve years later played for people
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and have ended up on records because they had to tell me what it is.
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You're going to have to listen to somebody
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and you're going to have to take advice from someone.
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And if you can find that one person to trust with your process,
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you're really lucky to have that person.
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