Re: Things that started life as mistakes, but you like them anyway
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 24, 2003, 20:13 |
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On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:15:23PM +0000, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
> --- Peter Bleackley skrzypszy:
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> > Does anyone else have a similar experience, where an unintentional slip of
> > the mind in language making lead to a feature that you decided to keep?
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> Not in langmaking, as far as I can remember, but I have the experience
> in music-making. I happened a few times that I wrote some chord or
> succession of chords, and when I tried to play it, I made a mistake that
> pleased me more than what I had written.
[snip]
That happens to be *all* the time. :-) I play the piano mostly by ear, and
quite often when I play the same tune over and over again, I "try out"
different chords and progressions. Quite often, a "mistake" turns into a
rather nice progression that I hadn't thought of before.
T
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