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Author: Ben Shaffer
Date: 2018-12-07 02:19
I play in 2 Bands, one is 20 minutes away and the other in another Town takes me 35 to 40 minutes to get to
Just curious how long for you.
If it takes you as long as me that's fine as misery loves company :(
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Author: m1964
Date: 2018-12-07 18:55
Playing in a band 25 min. away and in an amateur symphony orchestra 1 hr. 15 min. drive (in another state).
Are you feeling much better? 😁
Post Edited (2018-12-07 18:55)
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2018-12-08 00:19
I get up in the morning, walk into the kitchen, grab a cup of coffee, and walk into the living room and practice.
:-)
...............Paul Aviles.
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Author: Windy Dreamer
Date: 2018-12-08 01:40
While sitting on my loveseat I reach 4 inches to a clarinet that I keep standing there. If I feel I need to change clarinets I walk 4 feet to the other end of the loveseat where I have two more clarinets standing by.
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Author: shmuelyosef
Date: 2018-12-08 06:38
Similarly, to the responses, in order "to practice" I just go into my room and grab a clarinet from a case...as long as it takes to assemble and mount a reed.
However, when I need "to rehearse", I drive anywhere from 15 minutes to over an hour, depending on distance and traffic.
Semantically speaking, most folks think of practice as something done alone, and rehearsing as something done with other musicians...at least in my circles
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Author: marcia
Date: 2018-12-08 21:48
To practise--don't even have to leave the bedroom.
To rehearse--20 minutes, 25 minutes, 45 minutes.
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Author: monnarush
Date: 2018-12-09 01:26
I pratice at home in my one room tiny house. I just wish I could find some else to play with, I am alone in the forest of WV. I had hopes of my Grandson playing with me, he has clarinet in band this year, but his heart is not in it and he wants to learn guitar. So after this year I will hope that another of my Grandchildren will take up the clarinet and I may possibly have someone to play with someday. one can dream right? Have a wonderful evening!
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Author: Tom H
Date: 2018-12-14 06:46
I play a summer series of 7-8 concerts in the N.Y.C. area (the Westchester Band, Scarsdale). Takes me 30-40 minutes to get to our Mon. night rehearsals and Thurs. night concerts. Dealing with N.Y. traffic. Everybody in a rush in what I call the "land of cars all around me"--I turn off the car engine when I arrive and say "whew, made it here alive again". Maybe that's part of why I left NY for Canada 41 years ago....
We are the longest running concert series in Westchester for a professional band, as 2018 was our 50th season (my 33rd, 21st as Principal Clar.). We are on facebook and youtube--drop in for free concerts at Chase Park from late June to early Aug. Really good amateur players welcome to join.
To practice at home I walk downstairs--every day except on scuba diving days.
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Author: JEG ★2017
Date: 2018-12-14 21:49
In the 1970s when I was living in Boston I played bass clarinet on the Portland (Maine) Symphony orchestra. It took about two hours to make the 110 mile trip, and many people would do the round-trip in one night. Of course, I was in my 20s then and didn't think much of it at the time. I remember driving a car full of people through snowstorms in the winter to get to rehearsals. Toward my late twenties it started to take more of a toll.
During one concert series though, I had made the round-trip on consecutive nights after coming back to teach private lessons during the day. As I approached the tollbooth on the Maine Turnpike one evening I had to take a moment to remember what I had to do at the tollbooth besides look at how pretty the stars in the sky looked. After that I decided it was wiser to take up the orchestra's offer to spend the night in Portland.
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Author: EaubeauHorn
Date: 2018-12-14 22:05
I was playing in a high level concert band and was spending the summer on a mountain out of town because of the heat. I was willing, for that group, to do a one-way trip of an hour, which included going up the mountain sometimes (in the dark) in fog that forced five mile an hour driving with the door open to see the line in the middle of the road.
Other than that, most of my rehearsals have been a half hour or so away. It would have to be a really great group before I'd go beyond that.
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