How I Failed as a Musician - So I Could Become an Artist | David Snyder | TEDxFargo

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Speaker and composer David Snyder, based in Los Angeles, CA, shares the deeply personal story of how nine years of rigorous classical piano training shaped — and nearly broke — his identity as an artist. Through live music and original composition, the talk explores how discipline and rules aren't the enemy of creativity, but the foundation of it. Drawing from his own journey of quitting the piano after a devastating competition loss, moving to LA, and eventually becoming a professional musician and composer, the talk makes the case that you have to learn the rules before you can truly break them. Woven throughout with live piano performance — including an original composition written for his wife — the talk ultimately reveals what so many artists discover: that music can say the things we don't have the words for, and that our greatest creative breakthroughs often come from the very experiences that first seemed to destroy us. To learn more about David Snyder and his work, visit th

Tags: Art, Composing, Creativity, English, Failure, Music (performance), TEDxTalks, [TEDxEID:69045]