Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2001-11-28 03:47
There was a thread on this question on the Klarinet list quite awhile back. As I recall, the general consensus among the pros was, if you are a professional performer, 2 hours a day is maintenance, to make progress requires a minimum of 5 hours a day.
Gretchen, if you are a performance major, listen to your teacher. (Of course, college students should ALWAYS listen to their teachers. ;^) Guess what I do for a living.) IMHO, 2 hours a day may be adequate for an education major but a performance major who doesn't practice 5 hours a day (on top of rehearsals) will be left behind by the ones who do -- and there are folks out there practicing that much and some of them have at least as much talent as you and you will be competing with them for jobs. The music profession is very competitive. While you are preparing yourself, never be satisfied with "Good enough." If practicing is a struggle for you, try reading "The Art of Practicing" by Madeline Bruser.
Also, if memory serves it was Abe Lincoln who said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time [I may have reversed those two] but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." (Later paraphrased, perhaps by Spanky, into "You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but you can't fool mom.") The other quote is, I think, either Rubenstein or Heifetz and it's close and in the right spirit but not exactly right. I don't have time to try to find the exact words, though. Maybe someone else out there knows.
Best regards,
jnk
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