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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2026-03-15 03:40
In my daily routine of practicing clarinet there occasionally come bad days. Those are days when things don't work right. Nothing practiced improves. Things that have been reliable mess up. Fingers don't go the right places. Tongue feels sluggish. Mental control is weak. If I focus on one thing, something else falters.
This has happened my whole life, and not just in clarinet playing. It's infrequent but repeating. It doesn't seem to be tied to diet or sleep or lunar cycles or even stress. Probably it's a normal human thing.
It seems as though a day or two following a bad day comes a good day, or better than good. That often seems to mark an advance or a sustainable improvement in skill, maybe small but real. My theory is that the brain takes a day or so to move furniture, so to speak, reacting to persistent practice demands to reorganize into some better arrangement.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2026-03-15 11:15
I would rather the bad day weren't when I have to play in public! I don't play in public all that often, but I imagine that somebody that does this 50 times year has his or her "off days" and just hopes that they aren't too off.
rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com
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