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On 10/17/11 6:22 PM, Simeon Harris wrote:
all good advice i fell into a similar situation some years ago and found my way out by simply doing some work. the music is in you, it's always in you and it's always available to you.
I've used most of the techniques already mentioned; many successfully, some not.
Similar to Simeon's suggestion, there's one more (slightly dangerous?) method that I've used when hitting a creative brick wall: keep working... and working, and working, and working....
I'll force myself to continue bashing and bashing away at a composition, even though I feel creatively spent. It may take another 3 or 4 or 5 hours straight, but eventually I'll reach a point at which something inspiring comes up. At that point, the creative process gets kickstarted and continues from there. I'll probably get another couple hours of good creative work done. The next morning, I'll be able to look at what I've got and be inspired by it enough to continue working creatively.
I think that, as Sim mentioned, the music is always in you. In my case, it's merely a matter of beating the crap out of the creative block until it finally gives up from sheer exhaustion, and the music flows out again.
Another possibility that occurred to me this moment... I've not used it to break a creative block, but there have been times where I've taken an instrument into the bedroom and laid back on the bed, relaxing while plunking away. There's some rather interesting stuff that comes out by playing in an automatic, half-awake/half-napping state. That might be useful to try when attempting to bust through a block.
--m.