Mick Murray

Creative Day 5

Mick — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:00:10 +0000

Here are two haiku poems from yesterday.

Drinking my coffee
Aroma of the morning
Black, liquid bliss

Telecaster strums
Overdriven amp rings loud
Music for my soul

Creative Day 4

Mick — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:02:24 +0000

I recently acquired a Fender ’52 Vintage Reissue Telecaster. As would be expected, I’ve been playing it like crazy recently and decided to draw a picture in my journal.
Today’s creation is this:

Creative Day 2 & 3

Mick — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:04:25 +0000

The blank page.

It defeated me.

Unfortunately this is not the first time, thus my interest in reading Untitled: Thoughts on the Creative Process by Blaine Hogan. The book is quite short, but has given some good insight when facing a problem like this.

Apparently this is something that many other artists have to overcome as well. Really, I just need to force myself to put my pen down on the paper and write (or draw). And then I need to be okay with whatever happens after that.

It’s been said that for every 100 songs written, only 10 are seen as decent. I have not even come close to writing this many songs, but the point makes perfect sense.

I think the biggest problem I face, as well as many other artists, is that a blank page is not necessarily the scary part, it’s creating something that is sub-par. Once I am okay with creating some sub-par stuff on paper, then perhaps I’ll see a glimpse of something great.

Today is another day, so the journey continues.

Creative Day 1

Mick — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:44:00 +0000

A challenge was issued by Rob Rash to be creative every day in February. In an attempt to further unleash my creative self I have decide to rise up to the occasion and post about my journey. Not everything will be good. In fact, I’m expecting most of it not to be. Either way, let’s begin.

Wednesday evenings the Crossroads band practices for the coming weekend. Just a few months ago a group of us decided to start staying later to jam. No recordings exist as of right now, but I just wanted to tell the [quick] story of what happens.

We come together, one of us just starts playing something, and then the creativity takes us on a wild journey. Though it’s only been a couple of months since we began, I can already see a huge improvement in my musicianship. I find myself trying to learn more blues licks throughout the week so I can try to apply them to our blues jam. Wednesday nights have become a way for me to learn and to express myself through music.

Last Night night was an easy time for me to be creative because we have this time blocked out every week. Maybe I am on to something here…