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Originally Posted by Rob MacKillop
We locked him in his bedroom for a week and we didn’t seem to catch it. But having said that, both my wife and I had a tummy ache and loss of taste for a few days, but nothing else. We still don’t know if we had it or not.
It certainly is a very strange beast.
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06-19-2020 06:42 PM
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I'm glad your son recovered so quick. Researchers at Kings College say that 1 in 20 people take a long time to recover, could be many months. Sigh.
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Thanks Rob. Music (especially Bach) is a great consolation for the soul, you make that ukulele sing!
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Originally Posted by MikeJ
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Originally Posted by marvinvv
Within Australia 20-30 ms
Australia to USA 100-130 ms
Australia to Europe 150-200 ms
I find with a small group 100-150 is manageable. If there are no Drums its easier.
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The complete opposite situation for me - I would love to play guitar but have no time to play guitar. Or indeed any time at all to do anything fun. If you have a full-time job and a school-age child life is pretty intolerable right now. My life is just a treadmill of work; childcare; feed child; put child to bed; tidy up; more work; then sleep for around 5 or 6 hours.
I can squeeze in the occasional post on this forum while working: brief conversation about music or politics is the sort of little distraction that keeps me sane. But my life is non-strop stress right now, no fun, and will continue to be until either schools re-open or childcare options are allowed.Last edited by Matt Milton; 06-20-2020 at 03:17 AM.
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I hate to say, it's been great for me. I haven't worked since February, I was in Europe in early March and pretty much all the ER nursing work dried up pretty quickly after I got back (there was a bit of super risky work in NYC that I wasn't up for, and nothing pretty much elsewhere). So I hunkered down and practiced. I was thinking there was going to be work in May, but literally there were 3 open slots on the whole east coast. So I just kept at it
I log my time, so I'm around 400 hours since early March. About 30 hours a week. I had intended to really focus on Gypsy Jazz after coming back from France but with no jams to go to for anytime soon, I focused more on solo playing. Some African music, some chord melody stuff, some Bach.
I still can't play for shit but I definitely made a lot of improvement over the last couple months. Starting to hear from recruiters that work is popping up and I confess I have zero desire to go back to work, I'm really excited to be working on stuff I love. I think by the time the fall rolls around it's going to be crazy with flu season + COVID so I think I will definitely have the opportunity to work and I'll be broke too.
I always log my time in 15 minute increments. I used a cube timer and mark down what I'm practicing in a day planner with an abbreviation. I've been doing it that way for a while. It definitely works for me. I just need to sit in the chair and pick up the guitar and it usually starts rolling. It took a lot of practice to learn how to practice. I try to start with Bach if I can get myself to do it. Casals said to do that, it definitely gets your brain moving.
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I've been having no trouble being motivated. I KNOW I have made progress because I record myself playing standards every so often. Being conscious that I am improving while still being inspired by other musicians on youtube and whatnot is really a privilege. I've had to slow down actually because I've had some slight finger inflammation but its nothing some ice won't fix.
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