Where do you find daily inspiration?

Yesterday I was doom scrolling while I worked, in a window next to the window I was working in. I discovered someone shared the entire Neal Peart biography that recently came out titled No One's Disciple. (https://www.facebook.com/reel/1132125166432876). It was really nice to see his smiling face and to hear him talk along with others sharing their emotions on his life's work.

Today it's The Police Live! on Spotify with recordings from 1979. Amazing stuff. Sometimes it's Sade's collective works, Paul Denman has inspired me my entire life of bass playing.

I find myself digging through retrospective audio that brings me back to younger years, when I was discovering the music that ultimately made me.

I was wondering what inspires you - or what you find daily to make you feel music in your soul, the way you feel when you find that groove and lock in during a recording.

Where's your inspiration?

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A lot of what I may "last hear" on Wikiloops may trigger me into a specific genre, which sparks some inspiration. I may hear some funk track by Tof and Alex, and then I'm in a funk mood. Your sort of 80s track not too long ago, put me in an 80s mood...I jumped on your track, then did a separate template that was 80s-ish as well.

I think a commercial at one time put me into a mood of some sort. On some occasions it can be an event that is happening (past or present). For me, a lot of what I hear and listen to or watch can trigger inspiration of some sort. I wouldn't say I go searching for music or anything in particular, it sorta just pops into my life in some way and can be the birth of something inspirational.

This doesn't happen that often anymore, but I also like when someone makes a reference to your playing, but it may be something you've never heard or something you're not that familiar with. I recall Ray (rp3drums) telling me once that I sounded (played) like John Sykes. I was never a John Sykes specific fan, but did know he recorded with Whitesnake. Beyond that, didn't really know much more of his music. I think Ray shared a solo album of his with me and I listed to the whole thing. I could hear why he might make that comparison. I find things like that interesting as well because we all hear music differently.

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I do love me some John Sykes. Those Tygers of Pan Tang albums were great in my teens.

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As a "jammer", rather than a creator of templates, I'm 100% dependant on hearing music that has some "resonance" for me. It has little/nothing to do with the genre and everything to do with it tickling my imagination. So it's downloaded and goes into deep storage to be brought back up at some indefinite point in the future. If it still intrigues, then I hit record and see if it works for being "in the zone". If simple enough or the template has logic that I understand it can be a single take. If more difficult I'll give it another two goes. If it doesn't keep me in "the zone" I stop and go on to the next track. Inspiration (for me) can't be forced. I'm not here to work.

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I find inspiration in the pauses between the things. E.g. whenever someone shuts up I feel suddenly everything transcends beautifully.

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This seems a little forceful and unwarranted hartmut.

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I took it to mean that silence and breaks can also be a part of music. It's not necessarily that the music is so bad that you're wanting it to stop. Why would you even listen then?

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Silence and pauses are an integral part of music! Without pauses, there is no music and no rhythm—only noise.
Some artists have tried to take this concept to the extreme.
Alphonse Allais (1897): 24 bars of music containing not a single note.
Erwin Schulhoff (1919): *Fünf Pittoresken* for piano; the composer included a piece titled "In futurum" that was completely empty.
John Cage: creator of the famous piece titled *4′33″* (Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds), composed in 1952.
All of this was performed live in concert!
Miles Davis also spoke about this extensively, making space and silence the cornerstone of his entire musical aesthetic. One of his most famous reflections:
"Real music is silence. All the notes merely frame the silence." ;)

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Years ago I would be inspired to write songs for celebrations, birthdays, new babies, achievements etc and I would give them as gifts. Then I used to go to inspiring places, woods and gardens or the odd sea visit and write about what I saw and how I felt. These days my inspiration mostly comes from phrases I hear in coversations.

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To paraphrase Miles Davis’s famous statement: I draw inspiration not only from silence but also from my persistent tinnitus—I’m not joking—an indelible mark of a rather "noisy" and creative musical past. I have managed to turn this aspect to my advantage in my daily work as well, infusing it with creativity and color, come what may. But the true starting point lies in observing the world and creation itself. Every aspect of our lives can be translated into notes and chords; listening to people speak—even in their local dialects and slang—often marks the beginning of a story or a solo for me. They are snapshots of lived experience, perhaps even of the past. Everything featured on WL speaks of us, and the extraordinary thing is that it is all expressed in a single language. Remarkable, don't you think?

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I thought he was talking about wives in general :O:D WTH Ernie!

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