Rules of Thumb Notes to Myself • Play with materials you find engaging. • Create exciting musical experiences. • Let loose barrages of beautiful melodies and dance-like rhythms.1 • Shape your working process to support your resonant responses.2 • Deploy striking stylistic techniques at will. • Explore the virtuosity of highly trained performers. • Let your headstrong muses slip across stylistic borders and steal ideas that fascinate them.3 • Remain open to vibrant vernacular influences.4 • Remain open to ideas emerging from your unconscious.5 • Let expression-driven structures take delightful, unexpected swerves.6 • Explore. Find. Play. Produce. Enjoy.