During your experiences you can aim for two kinds of goals, with different payoff-timings: 1) you can mainly want to do your best possible performing now (with a Performance Objective) so you're making high-quality music now, * or 2) you can mainly want to do your best possible learning now (with a Learning Objective that is an Education Objective) so you can improve your best possible performing laterby making higher-quality music later.Continue to " experiment, listen, and learn" to get more experiences, and try to learn more from your experiences.How can you improve your musical quality? You also can learn from the experiences of others, by listening to their musical experiments and by thinking about their ideas, like those in this page and pages by other authors.Įventually (maybe immediately) you will "care about the quality" of your music, and - as with car driving or mountain climbingbut less important - you will want to avoid mistakes, so. * You can do a wide variety of creative experiments - by “trying out” new melodies & harmonies & rhythms & styles & moods and more - to produce new experiences, so you can learn from your experiences. Also, it helps if other elements within these such as chord progressions match. all drop at the right time, for instance if not, you have to start cutting and looping things, which gets complex for sa beginner). The possibility of mistakes, just relax and experiment, listen, learn. First, the song structures have to match (it helps if verse / chorus / verse / chorus etc. Work well) so you can learn from your experiences. when you're alone ( and nobody, not you or anyoneĮlse, cares about the quality or klunkers) because the low risk will help you relax so you are more willing to do creative experiments, * to produce new experiences - and you listen to get feedback (to discover what does and doesn't
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One effective strategy for learning is a key principle that is extremely useful for a novice improviser, and also is useful for experts with lots of experience: You will feel more free to creatively explore new ways of making your own music when you do experiments in low-risk situations- e.g. Music is one of the best things in life, and I'm hoping this page will help you increase your enjoying of musical activities, whether you're just listening to it or you're also creatively making it. The Wonders of Music Yes, music is wonderful – it's enjoyable and fascinating, can be beautiful and dramatic, familiar and mysterious, relaxing and exciting, inspiring physically and mentally and emotionally.