Pharrell Shares Creative Advice | 'Feeling is the Heart of Creative Practice'

musically I feel like I'm not I'm not one of those guys that are like you know oh this is a nine eight time signature this is amazing that just feels like math to me I think I get blown away by chord progressions that make me feel something that I've never felt before like to Me chords are coordinates wow you know what I mean they like send you to a place beautiful and uh when I'm lucky enough to be in the right elevator yeah and I'm looking up and I'm doing two I'm doing three things at once I'm going what is that number two I'm trying to like remember the feeling because when I go to chase it later that is I'm gonna have to reverse engineer the feeling in order to get to the chord structure and third to just back it up by trying to Shazam it right then and there I find that it's better to chase a feeling in a direction and allow the automatic flow the intuitive part of you take over versus the ego which is going through the library of everything you've accumulated everything you know and well this is going to be and this is it almost always fails it's about chasing a Direction versus giving your spirit a directive I find that like people who say this is going to be a hit are just as unsuccessful as those who create hashtags you know let's do a hashtag call for Action it never works right right we just ideate people don't have to respond let's say you hear something in that moment you have that experience you've shazammed it yeah next what happens I just want to listen to it over and over and over again and really understand what I'm feeling and why I feel that way because there's a there's a there's a whole like University of Science between what's being played and what you're hearing yes so you're analyzing yourself as much as the music yeah because if you don't then you don't really you're not really getting the proper assessment of what's Happening you know um if I'm hearing something but I'm not paying attention to how I'm feeling then for me I don't know what I'm listening that's my way of that's my GPS of understanding that's how I process things that's how I feel that everything's cataloged by and and categorized by um the feeling of it if I can't if I can't see how I feel about it and I don't even really know what it is it's just music

Channel: Creative Minds

Views: 13,670

Keywords: Pharrel, creative motivaiton, motivation, creative advice, nerd, inspiration, feeling in art, emotion in art, how to write, how to produce, pharrel advice, nerd create, beatmaking, how to write music, making music

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Length: 3min 0sec (180 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 28 2023