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Been practicing 11 hours a day everyday for at least 6 weeks and have now just recently finished practicing improvising harmonic major and its modes in 12 keys all over the fretboard. Now I'm working on melodic minor with one key already finished
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10-29-2022 10:55 AM
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I practice 23,5hr a day at 350bpm with two fingers taped together on my left hand and my right hand tied behind my back. I blast Charlie Parker the whole time and am alternately blind folded, wearing ear plugs, or both. I sit in a bucket of ice water, naked, and refuse to speak in anything but GAS lyrics. Four more weeks of this and I’m guaranteed to win at music. Sorry suckers, no one musics harder than me!
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Originally Posted by rlrhett
You are nobly awarded the Marinero JGF quote of the day! Five stars!
Marinero
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Originally Posted by rlrhett
I try to exercise only when I am eager and in a good mood, it helps a lot ... :-)
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I usually try and practice for an hour every lunch time during the week, although sometimes I'm just not feeling it and I may work through lunch instead. I attempt one tune at a time, over a course of 2-3 weeks usually, and so practice consists of scales and arpeggios for that tune, transcribing the head, playing some sort of comp, and rubato composition of appropriate lines. I recently started transcribing a couple of solo segments by ear. I usually play 30-90 minutes in the evening as well before cooking dinner, and that tends to be a little less structured - more line composition and perhaps some attempt to improvise over a backing track. Weekends I normally have more time to spare. Yesterday I spent (for me) a monster 4-5 hours on various aspects of Lester Leaps In. Today I've just composed a bass line and am currently practicing the chords against a Brazilian clave. Each week I then record whatever I have the evening before my lesson with Christian, and the whole house of cards inevitably collapses .
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Originally Posted by rlrhett
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
Look at the pot calling the kettle black . . .
Marinero
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Originally Posted by Marinero
I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.
Nothing to see here move along
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
You know you're a pedant at heart! How 'bout some English humor? And, despite the needle . . . it only hurts when it first goes under the skin . . . things are that way with needles.
Marinero
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Originally Posted by Marinero
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Originally Posted by rlrhett
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I have lately been playing at least 2 hours a day sometimes more with a minimum of 1 hour. I can at times go for longer but age keeps me honest, and I do not have the concentration I did when I was younger. Other than run arps that occur in tunes I have completely eliminated all exercises at such. I now only work on tunes and especially the melody. Then I outline the changes before I start trying solos. I wish I have done this 40 years ago because it is all about knowing a lot of tunes from memory and playing them till they just work like eyes blink.
In my youth I did the modes, scales, and patterns but frankly now it is all tunes. I am in the Joe Pass camp completely. He never wanted to jam he always said......"lets play a tune." Guitar diarrhea can get old unless you happen to be Pat Martino or George Benson. One has to know their limits. Practice tunes!
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In my youth, I did the tunes, but frankly now it is all modes, scales, and patterns.
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Originally Posted by grahambop
He had a brief visit to the asylum of Charenton.
Marinero
P.S. Perhaps the Old Marquis is still alive and well!
M
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Originally Posted by Marinero
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Sheryl Bailey said, in a recent interview, she practices 2 hours a day, first thing in the morning, just on technique. Without fail. As well as personal fitness. She makes time for these.
I have a unique predicament: I’m learning the guitar all over again. Basically 8 string guitar. Takes a long time to internalize what came naturally. Also recognizing, in starting over, the gaps I have on the instrument.
So, in a way, I’m not afraid of “beginning again”. This time, I have a plan, I’m organized, I know what I want to do.
How many of us, other than the pros, really know our workspace, inside and out? How many of us can harmonize a note on the spot, with whatever chord, in dyads triads, clusters, 7th chords, inversions, etc.
I’m not keeping track of time. I just building everything back up again.
I just discovered Thomas Echols’ floor and elevator way of thinking about our instrument. As someone who is force to-rethink it, it’s been very helpful.
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
The vapours surroundeth us . . .
Marinero
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Originally Posted by NSJ
Once you know the fundamentals of music, learning any new instrument becomes merely a matter of mastering the physical dynamics. My first instrument was guitar . . . then sax, clarinet, and flute. Good luck in your journey!
Marinero
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Originally Posted by sgcim
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
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Recently I have reached a state where several hours daily exercises gives me great joy.
I've had it for about two months.
I read somewhere that Coltrane was a titan of work.
I wonder how he approached the daily exercise ...?
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Originally Posted by kris
It's a great feeling when you are completely into it.
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Originally Posted by kris
Also is important to try to make it the more entertaining as possible, as at the end of the day . Guitar must be something fun!
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Originally Posted by sgcim
Grant Green, What is This Thing
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