a practice routine--i remember that.
practice is an intense object of nostalgia right now as i just moved to chicago and have been caught up with the transition.
generally, i do about 1 1/2-2 hours a day a full speed. compress alot of the space away that i would usually use in performance. practice is part about muscle tone, part about exploration, part about confidence. it is also about finding new sound possibilities. chops so you can go anywhere and not have to think about them. muscle tone because without it, you dont have chops. exploration because, for me at least, that is what music is. confidence is the lamest variable, but sometimes i find i hard to walk out on stage unless i can tell myself that i have a wall of technique behind me and if everything goes south i can power through with that.
once i have more time again--maybe i'll check back in and say more.
i dont do the sort of music that is under discussion above--straighter jazz--i learned it, i did it for a long time, i wandered into other places and have been pushing out there for a while now. the mode of thinking about organizing sound is genre specific, really. if you are playing stuff that involves playing changes then what aberkok says above is really useful. if you arent, then it remains useful, but for other folk.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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