 Originally Posted by FriendlyFace
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I used to practice guitar scales in my head while falling asleep. Since I've stopped focusing so much on technical skills, however, I have found that dreaming/semi sleep state are particularly useful for writing music. Everything I write while I'm awake seems pretty derivative of whatever I've been listening to recently, but when I'm asleep my creativity really runs wild. The hardest part is remembering what I came up with once I wake up.
Practicing scales in your sleep sounds like a great idea; I'm hoping I can use the creative side of it too! Most recently I've been practicing classical music (A lot of stuff by Bach and Francisco Tárrega) on a beautiful classical guitar I bought a few years ago. I sometimes end up with bum notes, though, and my house doesn't have the best architecture for complementing the acoustics, so I think in the dreamscape I'll try and summon up a really sonorous guitar and play in a place with massive amounts of resonance like a cathedral (and maybe I'll see if I can adorn the stained glass windows and murals with images of classical and Metal musicians alike rocking out in epic panoramas 8D)
Naturally, I'd have to remember all this upon waking up, and actually get to a stage in lucid dreaming when I'm good enough to do that! I'm going through a bit of a dreaming dry spell at the moment.
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