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Re: Building stamina without playing

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2022-10-13 00:09

Lesley wrote:

> I have been told that to give it a chance to recover, I have
> not to bite anything with my front teeth for at least a week
> and I shouldn't play the clarinet.
> I am currently preparing for a concert with the band I play in
> which will take place in a few weeks. The music is not a
> problem, but the programme is 90 minutes long with only a few
> rests, so I was planning to practice a lot to build stamina.

I don't have any tips on building your stamina, but I would suggest that you relax, stay off the clarinet for a week as your dentist recommended, and then just go back to playing (assuming the nerve has recovered or been removed via a root canal procedure). You may need a day or two of shorter practice sessions to get back to where you were, but that's really all it should take.

I just took a week's vacation to visit our daughter in Arizona. I didn't take a clarinet with me. We got back Saturday night. I did a little more than an hour of playing on Sunday. It took a few minutes to get everything working together. I played a "wind ensemble" rehearsal on Monday with no problems.

I don't think a week should cause any problem at all unless you convince yourself that it has.

As for your plan to "practice a lot to build stamina," I think you have to be a little careful. Over-practicing has caused more than one player among my acquaintances to develop repetitive stress injuries that incapacitated them far longer than a week and took more treatment than simple rest. A 90 minute concert is not 90 straight minutes of playing. There is time between pieces apart from whatever rests you do have in the music, and perhaps an intermission. Don't spook yourself about the length of the concert. Just practice normally and enjoy what you're doing.

Karl

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