Meta Ideas - Generating Creative Content
I’ve been writing down small music (and other) ideas for over 20 years. I’ve generally struggled to store, organize, and retrieve them effectively. As I was going through my archives recently, it dawned on me that there are two fundamental types of ideas: one is “concrete” and the other is “meta.” A concrete idea is specific and actionable. It may be a chord progression like: A minor for two and a…