Category: Practice
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A new experience while practicing Sometimes when I’m practicing, my hand & ear coordination is so good that it seems like my mind moves from where I usually perceive it being (which is in my head) to my hands. It…
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After I got my stitches out the other day, I did some practicing. Would you like to take a wild guess as to what happened? If you guessed a new pain in the same hand, you guessed right. My thumb…
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My practice has been halted because of carpal tunnel syndrome. That doesn’t mean I won’t keep trying. Hopefully, the corrective surgery will happen within the next week or so. For the past several weeks I have been waking up in…
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I am looking forward to practicing today. I am in the process of memorizing 24 songs I have worked on for over a year. It is important to me to be able to play many of the jazz standards. Usually,…
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I hate it when I suck. I have not played for a week and shows. Anyway, at my friend’s wedding, I delivered the song she wanted without any mistakes. It was an easy one though. 20 years ago I would…
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Even if I SUCK! It is because I am using this site as a kind of accountability tool. It helps me to keep practicing, especially when I post something where I really sound like an amateur (which may be all…
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When I listen to myself playing I just don’t sound confident. I realize it is because I don’t thoroughly know the tunes I’m trying to play. But the more I practice them the more I know them. And the more…
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I’d like to think I am anyway. It is probably the fact that my horns are new. I have been practicing more and more. And using the SISU Mouthguard seems to have increased my ability to play longer. And playing…
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In my case, I love the thing that challenges me the most, music. I have always loved it; listening and making it. Everything about music, except for maybe listening to it, is a challenge for me. And since I’m older…
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Over the weekend I spent money I should not have been spending on music software. Band in a Box (BIAB) is a software which creates background music according to chord progressions that the user provides. Up to this weekend, I…
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I have been having a tough time. I have what is called degenerative disc disease. It is a deterioration of the disc between my vertebrae at all levels. It is, at times, extremely painful, as the nerves to my arms…
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Slow Progress I have been struggling lately with practicing. It is very difficult because of upper back pain. When I was young I never would have thought that my body would fail to the point to where I could not…
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