ABSTRACT
Creative music making (CMM) is a four-step process in which musicians can expand their musical expression through the creation of spontaneous. First step, Playing participants create spontaneous, free-form music in small groups of two to six performers. Second, Recording participants have their music recorded for playback, listening, and analysis. Third, Listening participants focus on improving listening skills noticing as much as possible about whatever is heard as a means of expanding musical vocabulary. Fourth, Questioning participants, in a group round-table format, raise and respond to appropriate self-directed questions in order to increase understanding and gain confidence. Creativity is a mystical quality possessed only by gifted individuals creativity can be viewed as nothing more than a commitment by anyone to make something. Fear of making music that might be judged as less profound than a symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven can be very inhibiting. Intuition is a nonrational means of selecting from among the numerous possibilities.
