Hello creatives!
it's been a while I had a chance to play music but lately I have been blessed by the luck of meeting soulmates who both are artists AND musicians and so I wonder, just for the sake of a good creative conversation, how many of you can play one or more instruments and what does that give to your creative life?
I have been playing piano, sax, bassoon and I've been a singer for many years. Gave up 14 years ago and went shyly back to just piano hopefully to stay - I like playing soundtracks mainly. A damage to my vocal chords makes it hard to sing but I still try now and then, but it is I admit very awful at times 
What music has given me that made my skills in Photoshop grow is the mindset of creating things a bit at a time, going back and refining small parts while you connect them to the rest of the score. The fact that building the piece whether I write (yes I can write music too, I had some composition at the conservatory of music, while at - I have written some children songs just for fun a couple of years ago) or I play does not go from A to Z but that I have to jump back and forth and that a complete piece is made of repetition, construction, execution and interpretation are a school for life, almost. To get to the top of the iceberg you have to go all steps.
How about you?
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Oh, thank you all for answering, it's very cool to learn and in case you never heard, after many many years away from the piano, last year I was studying video at Adobe Generation Professional (before I became assistant instructor for two classes I was a student). And in that occasion I played the background music for one of my tutorials. Mention how my ego goes high fashion
I saved the impromptu on my ipad while at home - this is what I could create after not touching a piano for 14 years. I still feel both proud and ashamed about it - here too, a touch of ego going high fashion but if we don't think big....
thank you Chuck!
Hi John and welcome into the discussion. I think it is important, once you learn a skill like playing music, that you keep it alive.
Ok I cheat, I did not think that for quite a while, but when I landed on a piano again, I understood that I was wasting all those hours I had spent on it dropping it in the past. Now I am far from being a good pianist, but when I can, I try to keep my fingers going
floramc wrote:
thank you Chuck!
Hi John and welcome into the discussion. I think it is important, once you learn a skill like playing music, that you keep it alive.
Ok I cheat, I did not think that for quite a while, but when I landed on a piano again, I understood that I was wasting all those hours I had spent on it dropping it in the past. Now I am far from being a good pianist, but when I can, I try to keep my fingers going
Classical guitarist Julian Bream once gave an interview where he revealed that he wasn't allowed to practice as much when he was conscripted into the military. Think it was like 2 hours max, if lucky. When he got out, he found his technique improved rather than regressed.
So, it's not so much about time as it is about technique.
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