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I like to have a shelf, wall, notebook, or some sort of reference around me with ideas, cleaver solutions, to jog my memory and thought processes. A lot of drawing takes place. Sometimes participation in repetitive activities frees up the subconscious to produce ideas. Sometimes a piece, be it drawing or song, will present it self more or less as a completed entity. This is rare, but it does happen.

With additional focus, as you have described, I believe more fruit can be picked.  To this effort, I desire to do more writing. To have it available as a learning tool and a record for reference. My tendency is to create the song and move on to the next one with maybe a crude recording and no notation. If elements are not in motion then I wait rather than participate in the process till the next formed piece is presented. Production is low.

The craft of writing can be practiced to the point where given a theme something is produced competently. Because these efforts are process oriented versus product oriented it is difficult to pass ideas along. This can be remedied when notating thought. One benefit I enjoy is the direct connection one gets when reading music from another time and sharing the moment of the past with the current.   _DF

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I’ve
re-read your forum entry from 11/18 and see it as a great way to think.
(Formulate and produce ideas into actions)  Lets call is Strategies to Write. There are many great
suggestions to pursue. One could change up the words a little and apply this methodology
to other aspects of problem solving for living.<o:p></o:p>

This is no
casual communiqué, many hours have been logged to produce this thoughtful
presentation. Thanks for the input. 
I am making a chart of this and posting it in my studio. <o:p></o:p>

Didn't know if you might have seen this. You may laugh or cringe:

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Your comment under "Turn Off's" (sic) cracked me up — a belly laugh even. Thanks for that. I enjoy your insightful comments throughout the site.

Thanks,

Herby

Interesting comment on  my blog. I just give those tips as a practical physical way of getting comfortable enough to play and approach playing. Guitar is a tough instrument to play jazz on. Things don't lay right on it and  it does not have the sustain of other instruments. Personally when it comes to practicing harmonic ideas and lines I don't think guitar at all! I am a a bit quirky in that I don't listen to any jazz guitarists. ironically I don't like to listen to jazz guitar. I listen to piano trios almost exclusively. Any other instrument in jazz has more expressiveness and versatility line wise , I respect other jazz guitarists and admire people like Scofield and Abercrombie, Jim Hall, Metheny etc...The usual players every guitarist listens to but I am interested in finding my own voice and unique 8th note line. Any stuff I transcribe is generally tenor sax or piano solos. So I agree with your statement when it comes to improv practice but there are certain physical realities to playing the guitar that need to be dealt with which is what I had in mind with the blog.Great observatiom though.I'd like to see more guitar players approach the instrument from another viewpoint. Thanx 4 the observation.

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