Daily exercise...tell the truth :-)

**ragman1** · 10-06-2022, 07:56 AM

Well, I think it's a shame that guitar playing is only a therapy or medicine for you! What would happen if you were perfectly free and happy?

**kris** · 10-06-2022, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by ragman1

Well, I think it's a shame that guitar playing is only a therapy or medicine for you! What would happen if you were perfectly free and happy?

And what would happen to you if the Internet disappeared ...?
Would practising guitar make you happy?

**ruger9** · 10-06-2022, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by ragman1

Well, I think it's a shame that guitar playing is only a therapy or medicine for you! What would happen if you were perfectly free and happy?

?

I didn't say it was "only" a therapy... it brings me great joy as well. BTW there's no such thing as "perfectly free and happy", except in moments. It's an illusion. But that's another discussion.

**Mark Kleinhaut** · 10-06-2022, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by kris

And what would happen to you if the Internet disappeared ...?
Would practising guitar make you happy?

who are you talking to?

**mr. beaumont** · 10-06-2022, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by Mark Kleinhaut

who are you talking to?

Guarantee you it's ragman. Kris and Rag have a long history of not getting along.

**Mark Kleinhaut** · 10-06-2022, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by mr. beaumont

Guarantee you it's ragman. Kris and Rag have a long history of not getting along.

ok, got it. Meanwhile, I put up a technique post with sole slapping harmonics but nobody wants to comment on it (boo hoo) so it’s always more interesting to “dance about architecture”, as they say

**mr. beaumont** · 10-06-2022, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by Mark Kleinhaut

ok, got it. Meanwhile, I put up a technique post with sole slapping harmonics but nobody wants to comment on it (boo hoo) so it’s always more interesting to “dance about architecture”, as they say

I haven't watched it yet, I'm a little nervous about seeing you smack your Halfling

**Mark Kleinhaut** · 10-06-2022, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by mr. beaumont

I haven't watched it yet, I'm a little nervous about seeing you smack your Halfling

hah, I was gentle with it. Promise.

**tbeltrans** · 10-06-2022, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by Mark Kleinhaut

ok, got it. Meanwhile, I put up a technique post with sole slapping harmonics but nobody wants to comment on it (boo hoo) so it’s always more interesting to “dance about architecture”, as they say

I must have missed it and will look around here for it. I have enjoyed everything you put up.

Tony

**kris** · 10-06-2022, 11:38 AM

Originally Posted by mr. beaumont

Guarantee you it's ragman. Kris and Rag have a long history of not getting along.

Hi Jeff,
By the way ... I practiced over 8 hours today, I have an important concert in two weeks.

Best
Kris
ps.
I don't know when Ragman is joking and when he isn't.Plus linguistic nuances ...

**Greywolf** · 10-06-2022, 11:55 AM

I practice at least 2 hours a day and split it between polishing skills ,and improving my repetoire.

**ragman1** · 10-06-2022, 01:15 PM

Sorry, didn't mean to start anything. I forgot where I was :-)

**kris** · 10-06-2022, 11:59 PM

This is a thread about jazz musician's daily work-exercises.I guess it's obvious.

**Litterick** · 10-07-2022, 04:16 AM

Originally Posted by ruger9

It's like my therapy. As long as I have play time consistently, my "fuse" stays longer dealing with all the stuff that normal life hands you.

I am much the same.

**ccroft** · 10-07-2022, 08:40 PM

I'm currently about 1 hr per day weekdays (work) and up to 4 on weekends. I usually start with coming up with an idea I like, and then seeing how I can vary it and use it. Then it's on to whatever I feel like working on.

I tend to prioritize diff things on different days. EG: after a day of working on something that I can feel the next day, I'll spend a day reading Bach to give it a rest. (my sight reading requires a very slow tempo)

When I came back to playing 6 years ago after a 10 year lay-off caused by a woodworking machine, I spent most of my time regaining chops, which I had from a previous 35+ years of playing. Almost back!

I enjoyed Mark's percussion. Quite gentle and tasteful as always. I'll have to revisit and make sure I gave it a like. Maybe I'll even come up with some sort of comment. I'm hoping this is good enough though...

**Christian Miller** · 10-08-2022, 03:19 AM

Originally Posted by sgcim

Be careful, you don't want to get to the point where you can play Cherokee at 320 like one of those silly beboppers

This is me messing around at 300 a few years back

the problem I always found at these tempos is that everything goes dakkadakka

**kris** · 10-08-2022, 03:42 AM

Originally Posted by Christian Miller

This is me messing around at 300 a few years back

The problem I always found at these tempos is that everything goes dakkadakka

Very nice...
I wish I could see your right hand ... I'm interested in the picking technique.
It is very difficult to play a few choruses solo at a fast tempo.
Recently, I have been practicing c-minor blues a lot at a fast tempo, trying to break the rhythm so that they are not just fast 8s.

**Liarspoker** · 10-08-2022, 06:01 AM

I used to play fairly quickly when I was younger. 3 note per string scales, legato.

Now that I'm an older player I'm trying to say more with less ( probably because my fingers can't move that fast for too long anymore

).

Coming into guitar player maturity is a very interesting process.

**Christian Miller** · 10-08-2022, 06:32 AM

Originally Posted by kris

Very nice...
I wish I could see your right hand ... I'm interested in the picking technique.
It is very difficult to play a few choruses solo at a fast tempo.
Recently, I have been practicing c-minor blues a lot at a fast tempo, trying to break the rhythm so that they are not just fast 8s.

At this stage I think it was benson style picking fwiw. I’ve moved away from doing that now but I think I could get a good turn of speed that way.

**Marinero** · 10-08-2022, 01:56 PM

Hi, K,
Once I took music seriously, I became very structured in my practice routine. As a saxer, I did 2 hours-a.m./2 hours-p.m and then gigged at night 4-6 days a week. I did 60 minutes in the morning of scales, chords, inversions, and upper/lower register work and 60 minutes on Marcel Mule "48 Etudes" which is pure madness but a great technique builder. In the afternoon, I would repeat the same routine but do "standards" for the last 30 minutes of each session. Total 4 hours. I also was studying with T.S.(Classical) and Willie Pickens(Jazz) at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. Music was my gig.
When live Music collapsed in Chicago in the late 70's, I retooled in another profession, and in '92 began the part-tiime study of Classical guitar. I was working then and managed 1 hour in the a.m. and, if there was anything left at the end of the day . . . one hour at night. Same program: 30 minutes-technique/30 minutes workpiece. In '95, I started gigging solo part-time on CG and did so until Covid. Since retiring in '16, I do 2-3 hours daily with the same program on both CG and EG with more time devoted to CG since Covid gave me the chance to develop a new program of Classical music. My dear departed friend, P.Z., Jazz jobber and principal bassist for the Chicago Lyric Opera for 30 years always reminded me: "No matter how tired you think you are . . . try to pick up your instrument for at least 15 minutes. Sometimes, he smiled, it turns into an hour." Discipline is the key to success.
Marinero

**Marinero** · 10-08-2022, 06:37 PM

By the way, K,
Here's one of Mule's Classical Saxophone exercises referenced above . . . sound familiar boys and girls????
Marinero

**sgcim** · 10-28-2022, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by Christian Miller

This is me messing around at 300 a few years back

the problem I always found at these tempos is that everything goes dakkadakka

I play it every day at 340bpm with Ralph Patt's backing tracks.
I generally practice at least three hours a day using Peter Sprague's three suggestions for a practice session:
1)Touch base with previous material (review and the maintenance of technique).
2) Current projects
3) Creativity session
From "The Sprague Technique" by Peter Sprague.

**Liarspoker** · 10-28-2022, 07:14 PM

I did my last gig for a while last Sunday so now have plenty of free practise time (especially since it's midterm here and the better half is going to France for a week tomorrow

).

The last week I've been doing an hour or two per day as follows:

* Ted Greene Modern Chord Progressions
* Goodrick Almanacs
* Van Eps Harmonic Mechanisms Volume 1
* Bach Chorales
* Mess with a jazz standard
* Write, write and write

Am loving it

**Marinero** · 10-29-2022, 07:30 AM

"* Mess with a jazz standard
* Write, write and write" Liarspoker

Hi, L,
YES!
Marinero

**matcarsa** · 10-29-2022, 08:18 AM

1h30 a day in average. I start practicing M7, m7, 7, m7b5 drop 2, 3, 4 chords. Then sometimes some Pat Martino activities lines or some 4th shell voicing. Then comes the best exercise IMO: 1) pick a song, 2) play the chords on my loop station 3) improvise a few choruses over a 4 frets section of the neck, then move on to the adjacent one and so on 5) improvise a few choruses on the low E and the A string only, then move on to the adjacent couple of strings and so on.

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