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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.

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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

  1. unlocked
  2. progression
  3. beckons
  4. chord
  5. 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.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. beckoned
  2. beckoning
  3. beckons
  4. bunch
  5. chord
  6. chunk
  7. click
  8. clicks
  9. eyes
  10. feel
  11. feels
  12. ficus
  13. groove
  14. head
  15. ideas
  16. job
  17. music
  18. piece
  19. poster
  20. process
  21. progression
  22. puzzle
  23. relationships
  24. set
  25. side
  26. sounds
  27. start
  28. thought
  29. unlocked
  30. writing