You have to learn the rules before you break them,
but you can’t rule the breaks if you don’t play them.
Tag: exercise
Composition Exercise #527
Release yourself from your music.
Composition Exercise #521
Grow up on a wide variety of music.
Composition Exercise #520
To have an idea, receive it.
To keep an idea, write it.
To own an idea, share it.
Composition Exercise #514
Write lyrics for an album
in such a way that every song
contains a line which it shares
with one other song.
Composition Exercise #508
Loudatio.
Howlelujah.
Sighlence.
Composition Exercise #497
Stop fantasizing about discipline and
start getting disciplined about your fantasies.
Composition Exercise #491
Hum the pitch that seems to come the most natural to you, and record yourself.
Do this every day over a period of time, and see if you can find your own personal center frequency.
Compose more music using that root note.
Composition Exercise #489
You can leave your mask on.
Composition Exercise #485
Admire people’s play ethic.