You ever just stop and listen? Go some place, hear something, and just stop? I love doing that. Hearing something and breaking it down until I can hear every sound, where it’s coming from, and what’s making it.
Take a song you really like, for instance. You know it by heart, but if you listen to it enough times you’ll start to hear all the components. Every instrument, every sound, every word. It’s amazing what you can find when you really look for it.
If you get time this week I really encourage you all to go someplace, and just listen. Close your eyes and try to break apart everything you can hear. Really examine it.
I love listening to songs until I can pick apart every instrument, and listen to how it mixes with the others.