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How To Boost Your Creativity

Posted on 26.06.18

Creativity can be a hard thing to create and stir up, let alone maintain. As a songwriter, you need to be creative for a lot of the time. However, as we said, it isn’t an easy thing to muster. In times when it feels like your creativity and productivity have deserted you, try some of these techniques to boost it. And who knows, you may feel inspired in no time.

1. Meditate

Often what halts our creativity is everything else that occupies our mind. Which can be a lot. By simply meditating and stepping back from everything else that might be buzzing around inside our minds we provide space for new thoughts, new routes of thinking and new ideas.

In short, meditation on a regular basis is an extremely healthy thing to do. Setting your mind onto a more creative, freer side. Which just happens to be the perfect condition to make, create and write.

Equally, yoga in the same pose as meditation (see what we did there? Was it a bit of a stretch? Ok, we’ll stop) is an excellent catalyst for creativity. There are arguments that certain poses in the rather zen world of yoga can help with creativity. Not to mention the fact that yoga can also help you destress and be an excellent way to exercise - both which again can help to facilitate creativity. 

2. Listen to music

Granted, a slightly obvious point, but never underestimate the creative power of being inspired by other equally imaginative people. And with your newly refocused and energised mind you can sit there, absorb the music and be motivated to become a more musical version of yourself.
Listening to music can help feed your creative appetite, not to mention deeply affect your emotions; lifting them up and moving you. And you could utilise these emotions in your songwriting process.

3. Feedback

At City Vocal Coach we champion a songwriters circle. For those of you who don’t yet know what that is, picture a group of songwriters playing, contributing and providing feedback to one another. We also greatly encourage collaborations. As a songwriter, feedback should be nutrition to your musical lifestyle.

Not only should you relish positive feedback, as this can help reaffirm and encourage further production. But likewise, you should relish criticism, as this gives you food for thought and helps to develop you as a writer. Which can only be a good thing. Feedback can ultimately lead to a whole new pool of thought, help with bouncing ideas off one another and perhaps even help to produce a deeper more developed song – one you couldn’t have possibly done without the help of someone else.

4. Try something new


When your creative juices are well and truly in an unproductive rut, take a leap of faith out of it by trying something new. Now this point is fairly open-ended, for instance you could try a new hobby, try being creative in another field: have you ever painted? Well, give it a go. The point here is to do something that is out of your comfort zone, pushing your own constructed boundaries. The feeling of accomplishing something new will almost certainly lead to a sense of achievement and rise in new ideas.


Creativity, quite simply, is the fuel to your songwriting fire. Which is why if your creativity has deserted you, you should follow these steps and ignite that songwriting passion you have within you. And then, let the inspiration flow.

 

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