Create or Consume

I keep saying that we should create at least as much as we consume.

Heard a talk recently about how 'to live' is to make music and it is imperative that we all create our own 'music'.

Often when I am studying an exercise I find that I make a burst of progress when I improvise around a technical or musical issue in the music.

Perhaps practicing / playing the violin should also be about creating music rather than reading / consumer other composers music.

When I write my own compositions it all seems to make a lot more sense.

When I feel a certain way and I use music to express how I feel it all seems to make a lot more sense. I cease to worry about the notes.

Anyways. perhaps it might help to improvise (within / along / above) a study and create as much sound as I would if I simply read straight from the page. It seems to work. it seems to open the mind and improve understanding.

It seems to open the mind.

If you're not sure about the music, abandon the notes and start improvising until it all starts to make sense.

E.g. instead of play a straight scale move around on the scale in a way that help analyse the key signature / hand position / string tension / bow position / mood of the key... The notes are a means to an end.

Stop reading. Stop consuming. Start writing. Start playing. Start creating.