Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Liven Up Meetings And Brainstorming Sessions With Jazz Principles

Jazz music is all about improvisation and flow. Adding some of Jazz’s musical principles can turn a boring checklist overview into an energetic, idea-bouncing meeting.
PATRICK ALLAN 25 SEPTEMBER 2014 1:00 PM
Picture: Andrew Lorien.
When Frank Barrett originally contributed his ideas about the jazz heuristic for improvisational organisations, he noted the element of “soloing and comping” among jazz musicians. You see this regularly in a jazz set during Trading 4′s- where the drummer trades solos with other instrumentalists in the band. Deliberately going back and forth with ideas and building on each one is a fun and conscientious way of saying “Yes and…” to a colleague rather than knocking down their ideas. Use the jazz art form as inspiration to provoke and transfer ideas to new, unexplored realms.

read more: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/09/liven-up-meetings-and-brainstorming-sessions-with-jazz-principles/

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