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How do you manage your playing time
Hi all
I'm wondering how you guys manage your playing/practicing time? What do you practice and how. I'm trying always top play as much as possible in a day. I practice a lot picking exercises with metronome (i call that right hand exercises) and i practice finger exercises and scales with my left hand for dexterity and strength (left hand exercises). I study only with Pebber Brown he has a great way of teaching IMO. Besides of that I try to maintain and increase my repertoire. Together i come in a day on average at about 2.5 hours a day (depending is i work a lot or have holiday) in holidays i play much more. How do you guys doing this? grtz Ray
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I practise mostly the tune I want to learn and run through the ones I have learned so I don't forget therm. I am not into scales much but I am slowly working on learning some patterns/blues.
I practise after work - 2hrs maybe a bit more. I mis a day here and there. practise more on the weekend. I play for myself - no one to impress but me. I think I'd need to practise a LOT more if I wanted to perform. If I only had time to play/practise I would improve/play beter I am sure of that. muito bom!
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I started a couple of months ago with performance now and then in a bar. This is very cool to do because of making music with others for others, but that for another thread
I think in a whole week i come on about 17 hours a week but i know people who play less and they perform. I try to play as much as possible just to make progress I'd like to get better. Fala portugues El Duque?
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I keep meaning to learn some... Espanol si. Learned most of that in school here.
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I do one of three things: practice tunes I know, work on new tunes, compose new tunes.
Technical practice comes about by playing the tunes.
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Offcourse everybody has his own way to oractice thats why i started this thread tto see how others do it.
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How do you manage your playing time
Well I might be crazy but I am rationing my practice time to cover classical, blues and pop/folk. I play a little bit every day, between 10 min to an hour, depending. I don't obsess or stress, but start with a goal. I make sure that I am having fun.
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These days I tend to have a project or gig I'm prepping for rather than generic practice. However I usually do have one or two very difficult songs in the oven that may take me months or even years to master.
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this article is worth a read if you haven't read it before:
http://www.bulletproofmusician.com/h...-you-practice/ for me, these days i typically work on a current tune or two, playing all the way through, often with a metronome or to a recording. i also isolated problem spots and work on those separately. |
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Ahh thanks that mc1 that is some cool info!
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By the way I've read the book: The Musicians Way
This is more or less a book in the same style as written in the article mc1 recommend. It is a very good book and have some really good advise on practice efficient.
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looks pretty good, thanks.
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The plan is, now that busy season is over, to play at least 1/2 hour during the week, more on weekends. Initially doing mostly right hand work as I want to conquer using finger picks. This all starts tonite. There is a lot of housework and yardwork to be done around here (we both work) so sitting on my butt when there are things that need to be done irks me.
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