Wow - I am about to put my third post up here in one day. I am not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
I too am quite lazy, and practice, as such, rarely. I almost never do scales and stuff like that. I am convinced that if I did I would be a much better player. Sometimes I to try to work new things out, and somewhat less often, I try to rehearse them to the point I can play them easily. As a result I have a limited solo repertoire. Playing along with records is a wonderful thing to do. I recommend it highly. My wife uses Band-in-a-box to practice with, and I credit her (well organized and directed) time with that very clever and easy to use program with her rapidly becoming a functional and accurate fiddler. She started playing about 7 years ago age 50. She had not played anything before that (well, a little folk guitar in high school). I will say that I get more out of frequent short sessions with the instrument than I do with marathon sessions. And I think I get as much out of noodling and jamming with myself as I do from any sort of program, but that's just me and my scattered brain. This approach would not work for folks like my highly organized, and in many ways wonderful wife. On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Terry Bullin <[email protected]> wrote: > Lurk mode off. > > In some of the recent posts, there was mention of being lazy and the need > to practice more ect.... My question is, what is lazy? How much practice > is enough? There is only so much time in the day. Tater, how much do you > "practice" as opposed to playing/working. How much do the rest of you > practice. > I try to play some everyday. Some days it may be 2 or 3 hours, others, > hardly at all. It just depend on what else I've got to do. If I don't > have time, is that being lazy? > > So when you practice, what do you do? Tunes, licks, runs, scales? > Somebody told me years ago people shouldn't play by themselves (with no > music) because they would develop their "own timing" and it would then be > difficult to play with other musicians whose timing might not be the same. > I've seen people who did that and really had trouble in a jam. So, I've > always tried to play along with records or cds. Thats how I practice. I > have most of my music on the computer now, so I just try to play along with > one tune after the other. Is there is a better way? How do the rest of you > practice? Is there a routine, a plan, a method to the madness? I'm just > looking for other ideas and suggestions. > > Lurk mode back on. > > bull > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
