The hardest thing for me in improv is to stop analyzing and DO something. Even if it's a suboptimal thing much of the time, that still works out better in the long run than standing around waiting for something optimal to occur to me.
I know that, but I'm not especially good at acting on that knowledge. As you say, harder to do than to nod along to.
Also, I think quickly (when I'm not brain-damaged) so I can often "think-and-then-do" fast enough to make it work at entry level. But it's like learning the wrong fingering on a piano; when I try to advance it becomes painfully clear that I've been doing it wrong all along.
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The hardest thing for me in improv is to stop analyzing and DO something. Even if it's a suboptimal thing much of the time, that still works out better in the long run than standing around waiting for something optimal to occur to me.
I know that, but I'm not especially good at acting on that knowledge. As you say, harder to do than to nod along to.
Also, I think quickly (when I'm not brain-damaged) so I can often "think-and-then-do" fast enough to make it work at entry level. But it's like learning the wrong fingering on a piano; when I try to advance it becomes painfully clear that I've been doing it wrong all along.