0593 – How To Practice Ad Libbing Skills

2022.08.16– 0593 – How To Practice Ad Libbing Skills

Looking lots

Really looking at the world around you. On your walk or commute to work (be careful if you are driving!), take an effort to notice what you pass by. Perhaps take a different route occasionally to force yourself to see what’s different. And then sharpen your awareness and increase your confidence by giving an out-loud running commentary (a bit of a problem on public transport, I grant!) of what you notice.

Not just “a woman putting out the bins, and a siren in the distance” but specifics. Paint word pictures: “a middle-aged woman, I’d put her at about 45, is coming down her garden path with a small brown food-waste bin in her left hand. She’s used her other hand on her right knee to support herself as she bends down and leaves the plastic bin on the grass verge underneath a blossoming apple tree. Some of the blossom blows off the branches in the light breeze and lands on the woman, and as she stands up she brushes it off her shoulder as she makes her way back up her path to her front door. In the distance, the sound of an approaching siren, most likely from the ambulance station that’s based about 2 miles away…”

The colours, what’s happening what someone looks like, what they’re doing … and don’t forget the sounds you hear as well as the sights you see.

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