Artisan Warrior » Jazz http://www.artisanwarrior.com Just another WordPress site Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:50:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Collaboration: How you should prepare for it? http://www.artisanwarrior.com/2010/12/collaboration-how-you-should-prepare-for-it/ http://www.artisanwarrior.com/2010/12/collaboration-how-you-should-prepare-for-it/#comments Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:31:23 +0000 Sam http://www.artisanwarrior.com/?p=74 the99percent.com by Behance is one of my favorite sites for articles on how to be a better creative and make ideas happen. Recently, they posted an article on the topic of collaboration and team work. Many Artisans and/or Warriors who start off their journey start with one person, themselves. But in order to succeed, being in teams and understanding how to work in a team is critical to achieving your purpose, project or mission.

What Jazz Soloist Know About Creative Collaboration
by Scott McDowell

One of the defining elements of jazz is improvisation, the act of composing on the fly.  Anyone who’s heard a classic Miles trumpet solo knows the potential beauty of individual improvisation within the group setting. The team depends on each person to contribute his unique skills, ideas and views to the collaboration, and the individual relies on the team for support, guidance and judgment.

Since it depends on improvisation, jazz is highly interactive.  A player must be responsive to the moment-by-moment actions of the other musicians. Like a properly tuned creative team, jazz is above all a collaborative pursuit in service to the composition (the agreed upon goal), and the individual voices in the band (the members of the team). READ MORE >>

Here are the five skills they recommend to have:

  1. Practice until it’s intuitive.
  2. Listen
  3. Try not to repeat yourself
  4. Spur others into action
  5. Fail admirably

Any thoughts or stories?

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