harmonicanick
1685 posts
Aug 19, 2012
2:22 PM
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Yes, how much and for how long and how often..
Personally my schedule is at least half an hour a day when I am cooking the evening meal.
I have been doing this since 1978
As Jason Ricci so rightly said 'it aint how many years you have been playing, but how many constructive hours'
My own schedule means I stick a james Cotton cd or Jason Richie or whatever and play along.
I will play to myself in the kitchen (cause my wife can't stand it)
I guess overall, cleaning, playing andn listening it is an hour a day; every day and I love it:)
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waltertore
2494 posts
Aug 19, 2012
2:45 PM
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I never have and never will. I play. I started out making noise but it felt good to me. Thinking is what I do all day with life. My art is an escape from that. I feel no frustrations just joys. Why mess with that? I may not know as much as the whiz kids but what I do know keeps me endlessly excited. I play music 3-10 hours a day, everyday. Songs just come out. I share this to show there are other ways than the thinking way to become an accomplished musician. Walter
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Last Edited by on Aug 19, 2012 2:46 PM
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harmonicanick
1686 posts
Aug 19, 2012
3:00 PM
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@waltertore
Don't interpret the word 'practice' as a chore..
I love it as much as you
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BronzeWailer
779 posts
Aug 19, 2012
3:29 PM
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Structured practice depends what I am trying to learn. Maybe an hour or so. A couple of hours at gig if one is happening, 3 hours for a typical busking session, and noodling at other times. 1-6 hours a day I guess. It is both too much (for my loved ones) and not enough.
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TheoBurke
72 posts
Aug 19, 2012
7:28 PM
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I play every single day for an hour minimum;
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Ant138
1226 posts
Aug 19, 2012
11:01 PM
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I try to play every day but it doesn't happen, not with working full time. I try to grab a few hours at the weekend mainly as my wife works full time but she also has a weekend job.(my wife also dislikes the sound of the harmonica)
For the first 4 years of playing harp i would play every day, any spare minute i could get and play until my lips bled but i cant do that anymore. I think it really helped me in the long run though.
The last time i practiced was yesterday. I practiced for about 2.5 hrs and i worked through some songs that i have learnt in the past,i practiced Juke,Blue midnight,fast Boogie. I always try and run through whole songs i have learnt otherwise i forgot parts to them. It sucks spending 6 months learning a Little Walter song then forgetting it another 6 months down the line, so i gotta keep on top of it, whilst trying to learn other songs.
i also try and put shuffles together with new licks as i find myself playing the same shuffles with the same licks.
I 'm also woodsheddind 3rd position and the Chromatic at the moment.
If i get a rare day off in the week i will try and practice for most of that day.
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Hobostubs Ashlock
1932 posts
Aug 20, 2012
12:53 AM
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Ill start in when the sun goes down give or take a hour and work on something musical,be it harp or guitar,or recording or all 3,with many breaks in between all night long untill sun up ,give or take a hour,If I go to bed I might do it again the next day but most times,I stay up,then the next day I dont do anything with music,im to tired I will watch a movie or something and try to get to sleep.I have no life so this is what I do,Although its starting to kill me i think,So im trying to reorganize and try to get in a normal routine.
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Rubes
571 posts
Aug 20, 2012
1:34 AM
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I reckon I average bout an hour or so per day....Multitasking with house chores whilst noodling along to blues internet radio can and does lead to many a surprising tangent!
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Last Edited by on Aug 20, 2012 1:34 AM
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Steamrollin Stan
521 posts
Aug 20, 2012
3:05 AM
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I play with the harp many times a day, i can do lots of things others do, but i DO NOT instill the riffs into my brain and play them as second nature, pure lazy but one day i'll change my habits, the consolation is i'm not to bad repeating others using just my "ear" to get going.
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boris_plotnikov
758 posts
Aug 20, 2012
7:08 AM
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For the first 10 years of playing I tried to practice at least an hour every day, usually a bit more.
Last two years when playing harmonica becomes my main job I started to let myself not to play for a 1-3 days sometimes after long tours or some gigs.
Now usually I try to warm up every day with usual set of excercises. And if I have an extra time and wish I work on something new to me (tunes, excercises). I also started to practice singing and playing guitar again.
Usually I'm practicing harmonica while walking, driving in traffic jams or waiting for something.
I usually start to practice a lot if I have a special goal (e.g. new tunes, especially classical), possible for 3-4 hours a day for a some weeks before gig.
For the last week I practiced so few so I'm really frustrated. I have a flu and I'm guest in home of my friends where they ask me not to play.
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scrybe314
103 posts
Aug 23, 2012
2:22 PM
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I practice with the band two hours every Tuesday and Thursday, but my personal woodshedding time is a lot less constructed. I can sit down for hours figuring out new riffs and tightening up my tone, then go weeks without actually working on anything at all outside of dedicated band rehearsal.
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RyanMortos
1333 posts
Aug 23, 2012
3:22 PM
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Not enough! But I'm putting more and more time aside for it. Usually an hour of focused practice daily minimum.
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Last Edited by on Aug 23, 2012 3:31 PM
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S-harp
62 posts
Aug 24, 2012
4:16 AM
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Practise vs playing ... well
Playing can mean playing within my comfort zone. Not much of a challange, but joyfull ... playfull ... when playing I throw in stuff I've been practising.
Practise for me is focus on difficilties, callanges ...
I practise 15-30 minutes à day
Play maybe some hour per day
On top on that gigs and rehearsals.
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The tone, the tone ... and the Tone
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colman
188 posts
Aug 24, 2012
5:36 AM
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I started playing in 68`messed with it wile in the army and viet nam in 69` in 70 ` and out of the army i started woodshedding any where from 2 to 4 hrs. a day for 3 or 4 yrs.learned the three base styles of blues,sonny terry,sbw2 and little walter.since than i don`t practice i just play for the last 37 yrs.and at the same time this happened i was doing the same thing with a guitar.learn the language than you can speak and sing a song...
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lumpy wafflesquirt
615 posts
Aug 24, 2012
7:57 AM
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not enough and not often enough :^(
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