How often do you record your practice?

[voxo]

i was playing Basies Bag last night .heard a whisper..`lets hear them chords` yes it was George..was i smoking...No

[ragman1]

How often do you record your practice?

All the time. Not from vanity or to chart progress (because I'm not counting) but to hear what I played. I lose myself when playing and never remember what I did.

[RJVB]

to hear what I played.

This begs the next question (or set of questions): how often do you actually listen to recordings of your own practise? Do you keep the recordings or do you just overwrite them periodically? Etc...

I guess that should be a different poll!

[ragman1]

Yes, I listen to them, I have to! And most of them are kept. In fact, it's time I got an external drive...

[RJVB]

You have to? Who/what makes you?

[mr. beaumont]

I do not record practice sessions, but I often record at the end of one. I want to hear what I've worked on, but not necessarily the process.

[ragman1]

You have to? Who/what makes you?

I just told you, because I don't know what I've played. Of course I listen to it afterwards. It's not why would I, it's why wouldn't I? I've just done it, it's my little thing

[Christian Miller]

I record myself and look at how the little wavey things line up with the click. Or sadly quite frequently, don’t.


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[RJVB]

I just told you, because I don't know what I've played.

Hmmok, you made it sound a little bit like an obligation. I wish I could see it that way, so I'd bother to record myself more often.

I have a whole collection of minidiscs with recordings of master-classy summer school lessons I took from '95 to '06 or so. Those I did listen to during the course because there was usually so much said it was hard to remember everything, but they became archival material very soon after coming home...

[ragman1]

Hmmok, you made it sound a little bit like an obligation. I wish I could see it that way, so I'd bother to record myself more often.

No obligation, just interest. But the real question is why you don't record yourself. Presumably you think what you've played doesn't need reviewing in any way. All I can say is it can't be very demanding stuff. You've done it, you played it... so what? No need to record it.

How about the melody plus a couple of consecutive solos over a backing track? You'd want to listen to that again, I expect. Unless you just take it for granted everything you've done is all perfectly wonderful and beyond self-criticism :-)

[RJVB]

... But the real question is why you don't record yourself ... Unless you just take it for granted everything you've done is all perfectly wonderful and beyond self-criticism :-)

Erm?

I do record myself, but not often in part because of the hassle to put thing, in part because I know I'm usually not good enough to make it through a piece without glitching. So I know I'd end up with recordings that would require time and effort to cut out those rotten bits to make something listenable. Sometimes I will do that and then still find I only rarely listen to them.

[KRosser]

I record myself pretty often, just using the voice memo app on the iPhone. I listen back right away, make the notes I need to make about it, and then delete it - always. This is very much a private thing to me so I see no reason to hang onto any of it.

In another life I also do a lot of classical playing, which is what got me started doing that when I was working on my undergrad and it was a little handheld Radio Shack cassette recorder that was always in my case. In fact, I think I used the same 90-minute tape, rerecording over and over, for my entire undergrad degree.

[Donnd]

My goal for solo chord melody pieces is to eventually make them into polished recordings. When I think I can play it “perfectly” then I start recording. Sometimes there are systematic errors that the playback reveals but that is the final process of polishing. Probably should record more frequently but there is the issue of having time to review.

I use a DAW also for more elaborate arrangements and this is where I record all the time. I play live piano and bass guitar over drums. It’s interesting to see the visual feedback of how well I play against the rhythm tracks.

[Marklin678]

If I want to benchmark improvement, I record the piece I'm working on, once a week. It's a good way to demonstrate to myself that I am getting better.