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Originally Posted by AndyEdwardsMusic.com
I think thats about right honeydutchautopsy.
So what things would you teach on a music course to develop that skill?
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Well that's very difficult since creativity is kind of an inborn thing and that's what I see as most important in a musician.
Personally I'd ask my students to renounce all music they hear in the popular media and tell them to explore lesser known genres.... jazz, the growing math-rock scene (my personal favorite), underground hip-hop from the early 90's, kraut-rock, technical death metal, post-punk...whatever! There's many styles of music out there that the average person haven't heard a single band from and instead they settle for the music that corporations create in a laboratory and recycle over and over (such as the current fad of Nickelback/Hinder/Default/Crossfade clone rock bands).
Anyways, that's just my little rant but one of the most important things to an aspiring musician is their influences and I would like to see the trend of recycling music that started in the 80s be broken!
edit: I just realized that has little to do with your original question which is what I would teach in a music course to develop that skill. Oops. Definitely one thing that helped me a lot is playing along to a song but improvising my own parts different from the original song. Trying to create something tasteful and groovey that goes with the song well. That's where it's at