Good news! It's very difficult to die from lack of sleep. Bad news! After 72 hours of sleep deprivation you're declared legally insane.
I know what you mean about finding a better idea and forgetting about the old ideas in lieu of the new one. I also can't say that I find anything wrong with this, seeing as that's how I came up with my final composition, but I found the only way to keep myself from doing yet another switch was just to sit down and write continuously and instead of using all that creativity to create a new idea, just funnel it into the one you already have. Maybe just add elements of the new ideas you keep getting into your piece rather than the whole thing, without allowing it to take control and change the original idea for your piece.
Other than that, though, I'd say you should definately write down and save all the different ideas you keep coming up with for a rainy day- it sounds like you have quite a few!
Hope this helps and good luck!
And I had to say- the 'word verification' for this comment was 'huffers,' and I found that funny. heh.
This actually does help a lot, Jess! Especially coming from you, the girl who writes almost an entire piece one week, scraps it, and then brings in a completely new and almost finished piece the week after! haha you are a composing machine!
I find I get into my ruts when I'm away from my computer or any means of writing something down. If I'm in a practice room or ay my piano and I decide to play a bit of my piece, I'll usually end up changing things in the process since it's not yet set in stone, and then it gives me more options: "I could make this part longer" "this part works so much better than what I had" "this section shouldn't even be in it..." "I could put this part here instead of here" "I could come back to this part here"
I've actually considered just plugging my synth into my computer, pressing record and seeing what comes out. The only thing about that is you have to play so preciously that if you're off by a millisecond you may end up with a piece that contains multiple 32nd note rests!
I've got to step away from instruments and just see what comes out of sebelius, before I end up with more ideas!
Now if only I had read this comment earlier, and not two hours before class! yikes!
I'm not sure if you can die from lack of sleep — I wouldn't be surprised if you could, or if you went nuts, as Jessica said — but I know it's been used as a torture technique, so I personally wouldn't recommend it...
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Good news! It's very difficult to die from lack of sleep.
Bad news! After 72 hours of sleep deprivation you're declared legally insane.
I know what you mean about finding a better idea and forgetting about the old ideas in lieu of the new one. I also can't say that I find anything wrong with this, seeing as that's how I came up with my final composition, but I found the only way to keep myself from doing yet another switch was just to sit down and write continuously and instead of using all that creativity to create a new idea, just funnel it into the one you already have. Maybe just add elements of the new ideas you keep getting into your piece rather than the whole thing, without allowing it to take control and change the original idea for your piece.
Other than that, though, I'd say you should definately write down and save all the different ideas you keep coming up with for a rainy day- it sounds like you have quite a few!
Hope this helps and good luck!
And I had to say- the 'word verification' for this comment was 'huffers,' and I found that funny. heh.
This actually does help a lot, Jess! Especially coming from you, the girl who writes almost an entire piece one week, scraps it, and then brings in a completely new and almost finished piece the week after! haha you are a composing machine!
I find I get into my ruts when I'm away from my computer or any means of writing something down. If I'm in a practice room or ay my piano and I decide to play a bit of my piece, I'll usually end up changing things in the process since it's not yet set in stone, and then it gives me more options:
"I could make this part longer"
"this part works so much better than what I had"
"this section shouldn't even be in it..."
"I could put this part here instead of here"
"I could come back to this part here"
I've actually considered just plugging my synth into my computer, pressing record and seeing what comes out. The only thing about that is you have to play so preciously that if you're off by a millisecond you may end up with a piece that contains multiple 32nd note rests!
I've got to step away from instruments and just see what comes out of sebelius, before I end up with more ideas!
Now if only I had read this comment earlier, and not two hours before class!
yikes!
Whoah, great discussion happening here!
I'm not sure if you can die from lack of sleep — I wouldn't be surprised if you could, or if you went nuts, as Jessica said — but I know it's been used as a torture technique, so I personally wouldn't recommend it...
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