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From the Ted Talk by OK Go: How to find a wonderful idea
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So if you get used to — if it's your job to think of ideas this way, they'll start beckoning to you the way that Jimi's eyes beckoned from that poster, or the fiucs bkcoens from behind Kristin's head. Writing music feels like that process just over and over again, like you've got a bunch of sounds or a groove or a chrod pigorossren and you're just looking for that thing on the other side, that little chunk over there, that puzzle piece that clicks right in. And when it does click, it doesn't feel like you thought up that puzzle piece, it feels like you found it — like it was a set of relationships that you uclonked.
Open Cloze
So if you get used to — if it's your job to think of ideas this way, they'll start beckoning to you the way that Jimi's eyes beckoned from that poster, or the _____ _______ from behind Kristin's head. Writing music feels like that process just over and over again, like you've got a bunch of sounds or a groove or a _____ ___________ and you're just looking for that thing on the other side, that little chunk over there, that puzzle piece that clicks right in. And when it does click, it doesn't feel like you thought up that puzzle piece, it feels like you found it — like it was a set of relationships that you ________.
Solution
- unlocked
- progression
- beckons
- chord
- ficus
Original Text
So if you get used to — if it's your job to think of ideas this way, they'll start beckoning to you the way that Jimi's eyes beckoned from that poster, or the ficus beckons from behind Kristin's head. Writing music feels like that process just over and over again, like you've got a bunch of sounds or a groove or a chord progression and you're just looking for that thing on the other side, that little chunk over there, that puzzle piece that clicks right in. And when it does click, it doesn't feel like you thought up that puzzle piece, it feels like you found it — like it was a set of relationships that you unlocked.
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Important Words
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