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Author: Morrigan
Date: 2007-05-09 23:24
Luckily at the moment I am quite motivated to practice in general. Just today though, I don't really feel like practicing. Sure I'll have to play later in the day, but I would still like to pursue some musical activity this morning that is going to make me a better musician.
What things do you suggest?
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2007-05-09 23:38
Sightsinging
Listening to great performances
finger exercises
chocolate
.............Paul Aviles
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Author: C2thew
Date: 2007-05-10 00:16
squeeze a tennis ball-- strengthens fingers.
while eating chocolate =)
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. they are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive as railroads lead to Boston to New York
-Walden; Henry Thoreau
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Author: samohan245
Date: 2007-05-10 00:59
when im not listening to music i usally do the following..
headbang
air guitar
air drum
and of course eat chocolate
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Author: grifffinity
Date: 2007-05-10 01:43
Score study - orchestral or chamber music...sometimes that motivates you to play too!
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Author: Detru Cofidin
Date: 2007-05-10 02:18
hahaha, I'm sorry, when I get done overhauling a clarinet, I don't think I'd feel like practicing it, but everybody's different.
When you don't feel like practicing, it's best not to practice, in my opinion. As clarinet players we must find other things to do. Indeed, we must find a way to get a life, from time to time - as difficult as it may seem.
Nicholas Arend
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Author: vin
Date: 2007-05-10 04:18
Listen to great recordings with the score. You'll be inspired for sure.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-05-10 07:31
When I overh-,err,fix up a clarinet I have to break it in at least one hour in order to check the pads, key action and all that.
Depending on the quality of my work, this saves me from doing the tennis ball exercise. ![[tongue]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie6.gif) (Besides, a dynabee is more fun)
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Ben
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-05-10 09:45
If you're reading this, then it's clear to see what you're doing when you don't feel like practicing!
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2007-05-10 11:44
Sometimes, "I don't feel like practicing" is just a momentary stage of distracted grumpiness with me, and the best way for me to get over it is by -- practicing. Usually it only takes disciplining myself to get out an instrument and warm up with some scales before music chases away whatever started that mood.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2007-05-10 11:58
Day 1 - Take a break. The world won't come to an end.
Day 2 - Work on reeds.
Day 3 - Read a book about the clarinet/clarinet playing (Brymer, Pino, Rehfeldt, etc.)
Day 4 - Get out your clarinet and noodle on it for awhile or turn on the radio to a pop/rock/jazz station and play along with whatever happens to be on.
Day 5 - Put your clarinets up for sale on eBay. You clearly lack the focus to amount to anything as a musician. Begin a degree in accounting. At least you'll make good money. ![[rotate]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smiley25.gif)
Best regards,
jnk
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Author: clarinets1
Date: 2007-05-11 18:56
read a book
take a walk outside
play with pets
talk to family members
carve out tiny orchestras in chocolate
:D
JK
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Author: William
Date: 2007-05-11 22:28
When I don't feel like practicing.......I don't--which, at my age, is becoming much more the norm. Mostly, I am in the "maintainance only" stage of life and just practice the repretoire necessary. Fortunately, I have enough work to keep me going. If it wasn't for performing, I don't think I would practice at all.
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2007-05-12 01:18
When you don't feel like practicing?---
This is usually not a problem for me. My problem is, 'When you don't feel like going to work...'
:)
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Author: 2E
Date: 2007-05-12 02:24
"carve out tiny orchestras in chocolate" hahaha.
When I dont feel like practising, I listen to lots of music not just clarinet repertoire. Score read some of the really great core pieces that every clarinet player should to know with recordings. Listen to the mozart concerto/quintet, brahms sonatas/quintet, poulenc sonata, weber concertos/quintet, crusell concertos, copland concerto etc. After that you will feel like playing them to the standard of the recordings and hence start practising. Yes eating chocolate helps but dont go playing clarinet straight after eating it :S brush your teeth or something haha.
good luck, 2E
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Author: Old Geezer
Date: 2007-05-12 16:25
Make out with a new girl friend and then force yourself to practice!
Works for me!
Clarinet Redux
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Author: allencole
Date: 2007-05-12 18:08
When inspiration lacks, why not just run some scales/arpeggios, some Baermann, or anything else that'll make you feel like you've done a LITTLE something.
Listening, reading, repairing ... these are all great suggestions!
Do you write? Maybe transcribing something. I always have a couple of projects open.
Or a change of pace? I practice rhythm guitar late at night when I can't make horn-level noise. It's a ton of fun experimenting with jazz chords, restores a feeling of hobby to the music, and also helps as a teaching tool. Just as absorbing as a video game, but with far better rewards--even for a mediocre-at-best player like myself.
Allen Cole
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-05-12 18:30
Clean your instrument.
It's still more entertaining than vacuuming.
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Ben
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Author: pelo_ensortijado
Date: 2007-05-12 18:47
thats what im gonna do right now. the practicetime is over and im going to my room. going to line up some chocolate, some grapejuice and my cleaningtools for the clarinet. a bottlecleaner, some bore oil, other oils for the mechanics, and screwdrivers. and the fun begins.
take apart the whole clarinet. clean it inside out with the bottlecleaner and boreoil and then put back the keys and oil and clean and make them shiny.
my swab have turned from yellow to brown because the first owner smoked pipe and was playing on the same time. :P and it's dried saliva in all the toneholes that makes it easier to start leaking....
otherwise i play some other instrument. ukulele or piano. or listens to music...
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-05-12 19:43
> What's with all the chocolate?
It's good for the nerves.
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Ben
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Author: pelo_ensortijado
Date: 2007-05-12 21:20
and it tastes great!!!
i like the dark chocolate from new guinea! 72% or more.
its way different from other places. or is it just brands? i don't know.
its made by "Anton Berg".
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Author: nes
Date: 2007-05-13 01:52
watch youtube performances. prefferably good standard ones.
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Author: 2E
Date: 2007-05-13 09:07
oh god you can get some dodgy youtube clarinet videos, when your bored or dont feel like practising try making your own youtube video! just record yourself playing the opening of the mozart or a couple of scales or something to get an idea of how you will sound, it can get addictive!
chocolate is good for when the music dementors suck the happiness out of you ...
2E
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Author: Morrigan
Date: 2007-05-13 10:37
Better than making your own video - watch some of the depressing bad ones, and WHAM, you no longer feel like the worst player in the world!
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-05-13 11:25
"Better than making your own video - watch some of the depressing bad ones, and WHAM, you no longer feel like the worst player in the world!"
Yeah, WHAM are crap! Duran Duran are better.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: nes
Date: 2007-05-13 13:11
I'm not sure how to get a video onto youtube. do you need a special type of cam recorder? digi?
I love Martin Frost's sound - so perfect.
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