I find, especially when practicing things like scales and technique, practice in short bursts helps. also, planning out your practice time. I've known people who schedule out to the minute what they're going to do during a practice session, and then use an egg timer to make sure they stick to it. I've tried it, and found success, but I have a problem sticking with the rigidity regardless.
another thing I find that helps is going back to absolute basic studies, like the ones in the Bottesini, Bille, and Simandl books, and making them sound as musical and beautiful as possible helps too. Sometimes we forget that for studies to be really useful, we have to make them sound like music, not just notes on a page. The Simandl study no. 17 "tempo di Pollaca (sp?)" is a great one for this.
I realize this is the Jazz forum and I couldn't play a jazz gig to save my life (classical and folk player), but I think these sorts of things transfer over regardless of genre.
good luck man,
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another thing I find that helps is going back to absolute basic studies, like the ones in the Bottesini, Bille, and Simandl books, and making them sound as musical and beautiful as possible helps too. Sometimes we forget that for studies to be really useful, we have to make them sound like music, not just notes on a page. The Simandl study no. 17 "tempo di Pollaca (sp?)" is a great one for this.
I realize this is the Jazz forum and I couldn't play a jazz gig to save my life (classical and folk player), but I think these sorts of things transfer over regardless of genre.
good luck man,
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