** Cartooniverse**,
IT doesn’t make much sense to me. I think that when I write music I do it somewhat differently than other musicians I know.
Most other musicians and artists I know talk about ‘just going with the feeling’ when creating something. I generally work the other way around. I think ‘Ok, what kind of mood am I in?’ then I sit and think about the tone I want to use, the style that I want to play and the chords-scales that will get me to where I want to go. Then I start writing. It’s hard to describe but I think I write more from my brain than my gut.
When I improvise I can go back and think through why I made the note choices that I did. When I improvise I am not really thinking about what I am playing but the education-knowledge still comes through.
[brag on]
I just have to brag about this. When I was a Senior in High School I took photography. It was a black and white class. Anyway I took some photos using my Moms Canon AE-1. At the end of the year the school system had a state wide art show. For the show they picked 12 photos out of all the schools in the state. Two of my photos made it into the show. One photo was called ‘It’s a Dogs Life’ which was a picture of a chain link fence and its shadow. I was part of the shadow. The second picture was one of my friends who was kinda short and pretty fat. In the darkroom I tilted the paper and streched the photo out. I called it “Phil does a Diet”.
I loved those pictures but lost them in my apartment fire.
[brag off]
Slee
