Practice

Exercise is a practice. Yoga is a practice. Healthy eating. Mindfulness.

All practice, practice, practice... (for what performance?)

Practice makes perfect, I'm told.

Or maybe practice is just practice.

I'm launching a series on Soundcloud as part of my 'Day to Day', showing the evolution of a song. I start with The Swallows, variation 1. Tomorrow will be variation 2.

When Bob Dylan started to draw his pieces as visual art, the lyrics often changed from their originals. "The songs are about the fact that things change, and everything moves on."

I challenge the idea of a song being not a fixed work, but an evolving dream, that turns and so develops. It is played and exists; it is heard then changes. We approach it in new ways and variations, some which fits a person's ears, others do not.

The only constant is change.