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I am practicing six hours on Saturday.
- Thread starter Dr. Cheese
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I put in about 4 hours today, but I have a gig tonight.
Good luck with your goal…make sure to take breaks, just like you would on gigs.
You can curse my name later Dr., but a diabolical but very useful way to practice any scale or arpeggio is DON'T start it on the one. Start it 3 notes up or 5 or whatever, it breaks you of thinking they always have to be linear. If you think about it, if you notice some Dorian or other scale in a tune, you always hear a part of it, nobody ever runs a complete scale as we do when we practice. So scramble 'em up.
SIX hours? Lord-a-mghty, somebody would have to hold me at gunpoint . . . . . been there, done that a lot, but it's been a loooonnnnnggggg time.
SIX hours? Lord-a-mghty, somebody would have to hold me at gunpoint . . . . . been there, done that a lot, but it's been a loooonnnnnggggg time.
Congrats on your retirement!
I max out at about 2 hours per day, but I do it everyday. I usually practice in 20 - 30 minute intervals, then rest perhaps 20 minutes in between to let my fingers recover. Arthritis. On a good day I might be able to stretch to 3 hours, but I agree that best results occur in the first two.
I'm playing in an apartment with volume at reasonable level so my practice "window" is 11am to 4pm when my downstairs neighbor is at work. I have no other common walls so no need to worry about neighbors on sides. If I don't get my 2 hours in by 4pm I have to cut it off.
This is one of the benefits of retirement. You can practice when others are working!
I max out at about 2 hours per day, but I do it everyday. I usually practice in 20 - 30 minute intervals, then rest perhaps 20 minutes in between to let my fingers recover. Arthritis. On a good day I might be able to stretch to 3 hours, but I agree that best results occur in the first two.
I'm playing in an apartment with volume at reasonable level so my practice "window" is 11am to 4pm when my downstairs neighbor is at work. I have no other common walls so no need to worry about neighbors on sides. If I don't get my 2 hours in by 4pm I have to cut it off.
This is one of the benefits of retirement. You can practice when others are working!
I am not going to make six hours. It looks like I might two hours.
Life (and procrastination) happens.I am not going to make six hours. It looks like I might two hours.
I'm working on the same thing as you right now. Jared Plane has a video on his YouTube channel called "Five Techniques For Playing Modal Jazz," or something like that, posted a few months ago, which I'm about 65% through. Gets interesting at about the 50% point, when he talks about how to express the chords of the Dorian and Harmonic Minor scales.I made progress.
No, I've seen your videos. I just went in a different direction than you, in terms of what music I play. You are solid and can do things I cannot do, like slap. Check out the video, Jared has things that are easy to understand, and useful. His delivery is dry and dull but he lays things out logically.You are likely more advanced than me.
I retired from my real job four years ago, loving it! For me, playing bass is mostly about perfoming live music and I'm fortunate to now have the time and opportunities to do so. Quite busy this weekend, had six hours of gigs yesterday, seven more today... enjoy your playing time!
Between eating, taking the dog out three times, napping, looking at YouTube, and watching the WBNA and NBA, I think I got in 90 minutes of practice in 10-20 minute segments. I more than met my goals for the weekend. We played well at church service today too.
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Which also answers the oft-asked question "who let the dogs out?"
Glad it sounded great at your church, Doc!
Bought it today, thanks for the advice. It seems be exactly what I was hoping for (and so far easy to understand even if Englsh is not my native language). Bought the paper version LOL, in an old book store specialised in music books.
Great players, like this one I just posted, are why I am stepping up my practice. I’m tired of being buried by youngsters who were born thirty after I started playing.Now I just have stop taking all of these old man naps.
Hard to match technical chops with the youngsters, but with the wisdom of age, you can choose to play tastier notes!
