What Brainstorm Technique Did The Beatles And Frank Sinatra Use?

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Is there anything you can learn from listening to studio rehearsals of The Beatles and Frank Sinatra? Yes! Their technique of generating ideas and the fact that every idea has a right to life.

Have you ever listened to studio rehearsals of famous musicians? It is not only very interesting, but also rewarding to know how productive they are and what techniques have helped them become popular.

Studio rehearsals are raw and raw recordings of musical compositions. From the moment the musicians enter the studio until the moment they leave, the recording is going on. It captures everything: songs, breaks, pauses and every experiment of the group.

99% of this is unnecessary garbage. For example, when at one of these sessions Paul McCartney dropped a glass of water, Lennon instead of a song began to sing the lines that "Paul dropped the glass." But in the same recording, you can catch small fragments of what in the future will become one of the most famous hits of The Beatls - the song The Fool on the Hill. These are just pieces of a puzzle that do not mean anything in isolation. Taken together, however, they form a wonderful song.

Listening to such recordings, you can see the reaction of the musicians to the experiments. Most often it is negative: “It doesn't work,” “Terrible,” and so on. But these pieces remain, and what was previously terrible may become part of a masterpiece in the future.

And when in the end it turns out that way, you feel excited and excited. In Sinatra's case, when he finishes recording a song that works out perfectly, he just says, “Next,” meaning, “Yeah, guys. We made it, let's move on!"

What advice can be learned from such practices? It's very simple: write down any idea you have. It can be ridiculous, funny, unreal, but no one knows if this concept of an incredible website, business, work of art or an idea for a book has the right to exist and will bring you success in the future.

You will be grateful to yourself when after a while you stumble upon a list of your ideas, take a look at them and think: "Yes, these 300 ideas are frank shit, but something can come out of this 301st".

Think of new ideas and write them down every day. No matter how silly it may sound, but in this way you can train your "ideological muscle", and every day it will become stronger and stronger. You won't be John Lennon or Frank Sinatra, but you don't need that, right? Instead, you get the superpower to come up with cool stuff on the go.