Creativity Under The Gun
One Step At A Time
Creativity under the gun shoots down any chance of properly mastering the techniques we’re trying to teach you at Brolic Army DJ School.
Pace yourself with our material. If you accelerate the process of learning how to scratch or beat juggle without thinking through every step, the overall quality of what you do with what you’ve learned can end up undermining your motive to learn in the first place. Don’t be in such a haste to go from A to Z that you miss out on interacting with the letters that exist in between.
The social media trap will have you question whether you’re falling behind all of the other DJs who are posting their routines to Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok.
But there’s no time table you must follow to get better. When you feel otherwise, that’s your mind fabricating a time table that is based on a matrix world. There’s a gazillion DJs on social media, everyone can’t improve in the same way or same order. What’s early? What’s late? Compared to who? If you signed up to be a student at Brolic Army DJ School, it means you’re still at the learning stages of DJing, respect that!
Forget social media and all of the DJs who inhabit it when you practice. Train to stay integrated within yourself and share your creativity when you genuinely feel ready to do so. I concocted the Biz routine before social media existed. I took my sweet time composing it. What’s more, in not having an Insta profile back then, I was free from the pressure of posting my masterpiece once it was completed. Instead, I patiently waited close to a year before I brought it to light at the 92 DMC. That time allowed me to equal the Biz routine so much that I can’t get its execution wrong even if I tried.
Fail Forward
Which brings me to the idea of failure as it relates to creativity. Performing my Biz routine is like breathing or talking for me. The movements involved with the routine’s execution are second nature because I spent so much time interacting with the mistakes that came from mastering it. And so you can fail and still feel creatively connected. The two are not mutually exclusive. Failing is actually a necessary element in creativity. Any kind of creative work relies on some degree of failure. You can’t have one without the other. Just make sure you’re giving failure the proper space and time to teach you. Opposed to hurrying so you can show-off what you’ve learned to your followers. Otherwise you’re rushing to get nowhere.
Patience
Bottom line, when we’re learning a new skill, it’s important to allow for the connection of ideas you’re being introduced to, to take hold on their own timeline. So don’t underestimate the power of taking your time and being thorough before you move on from tutorial to tutorial.
Patience is such an underrated aspect of learning and being creative. Don’t be disheartened when something doesn’t click as fast for you as it did for one of your Brolic Army classmates. You’ll grasp what you’re learning from watching our tutorials on your schedule and your schedule can never be wrong because it’s YOURS, no one else’s!