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 Re: How much per week do you practice?
Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date:   2010-06-23 20:01

Franklin, I find your post very amusing.

I must be a complete novice with a Jello-like embouchure, as I'm lucky to get in a solid hour per week of practice. Yet I somehow manage to play (haplessly?) a reasonably regular series of classical and jazz/rock gigs and rehearsals. But then again I'm about two hundred years old and my embouchure, along with every other moving part of my body, has long ago calcified......

Maybe you're spot-on for young people trying to make a living as (or studying to be) full-time performers. But for many of us who have non-musical day jobs, especially those of us with non-adult children, forget it! Any practice time at all is a major luxury.

As a tangential remark (related to another post about the supposed dangers of doubling) --- an advantage of doubling on as many instruments as possible is that it tends to strengthen a wider variety of embouchure muscles, allowing (I submit) less embouchure deterioration when practice time is limited.
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