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Steve White
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5/5/2016 10:00:23 AM
Going to practice for a bit
Something every musician needs to do. I try to practice every day and make it most of the time.
How bout you?
Steve
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Two Silo Complex
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5/5/2016 2:08:30 PM
Well normally I don't but I do fiddle with the guitar or bass when I can but sometimes that lasts 10 minutes and other times an hour or more i'm not normally practicing anything specific just noodling around see if something forms out of it.
Recently, however, I meet some guys who are pretty good so I have been practicing the songs I play with them so that when we get together I can play my parts.
This is probably the most practicing I've done since 1996 when I was with the full group that recorded Abecedarian's plight and Shadows in the Midst.
But the years are getting on me and this might be my last chance to be able to perform a a real show in front of a real audience of more than 30 local drunks so that is worth practicing for.
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Stoneman
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5/6/2016 9:47:29 AM
For me working on music is also practice time. I come upon hard licks to play and I play them over and over until i feel like I have achieved the best that I could possibly get. In my youth I practised religiously. I knew that it was the only way that I would get the sounds and effects I wanted from my gear. Then I concluded that I had reached the pennacle of my abilities and should concentrate more on delivering from what I had learned. Got lots of accolaids and awards that helped to confirm I was on the right track. But I still have moments when I listen to my work and say to mysef. Self? WTF is that shit you just recorded. Shit always sounds like shit. No matter the genre or style. I know shit when I hear it. I listen and that pungeant odor associated only with shit starts to permeate the air and I know right away that music I just did is poo based rot and needs to be scooped up and flushed somewhere. Flies are also a good indicator. When the big Green ones show up I know I need to flush that shit or there will be fly hordes hanging around my studio waiting to hear more shit. Flies love shitty music. They eat that shit for lunch, dinner and snacks. So, if you don't want fly hordes hangin around your set up, you should practice daily. Practice every day to keep the Green Fly Hordes away. Don't let your music sound like shit. Practice makes perfect! At least, that is the bulshit they use to tell us in school. Maybe, they were on to something. Maybe, for once, they were actually trying to show us how to be successful in our artistic endeavors. All I know is that shit music usually sounds unrehearsed. Go figure? Or maybe my head is up my arse again. Damn I hate that!! It gets stuck and i can't get it out. Sometimes I get so use to the smell that I don't even know it is there. I get lucky and someone comes along and yell's "Hey Stoneman" Get your head out of your arse man. You are stinking up the joint with shit funk ideas! My reply is often, Oh my, I think my head is stuck again. Sorry folks, but this is a common occurrence. Head up the arse moments can be instinctual. They just happen to us all. Some of us more often than others. But we all get there eventually. The scary part about it is that most times we don't even know that our heads have breached our sphincters. We live in the illusion of being right while the rest of the world can see our heads stuck in our asses. They laugh and make jokes about us while we stinky poo our necks with incredulous banter that appears to be good stuff because the view from the anus is distorted and fake.
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Steve White
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5/6/2016 10:11:23 AM
Good points guys. :)
When I practice it's not always an instrument. I my practice my mixing skills or like Stone work on a riff or a vocal. I may learn a new app I've bought and used but never really understood it's full potential.
So I guess maybe instead of the word practice it could be just setting aside some time every day for something music related.
Steve
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LyinDan
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5/6/2016 11:23:07 AM
Stoneman
That was one of the best comments I believe I have ever seen online.
I bow to you!
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Two Silo Complex
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5/6/2016 7:31:27 PM
That was quite comical stoneman you still got it brother.
Its so great to see you here still keeping you in my thoughts.
I agree with your comments stoneman and also steve I find myself practicing mixing so I get what I want out of it but its is just crap no mix will fix it.
Two Silo Complex,
Ken
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Larree
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5/7/2016 10:32:56 AM
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Practicing has evolved for me. I don't really practice any repetitive movements anymore unless I am learning a new song, or relearning an old song in a different key utilizing different, non-standard chord voicings. I do have a few fingerboard exercises I sometimes revisit because it keeps me sharp. But I spend more time reading and listening. I listen to a lot of orchestral music, and some electronic compositions. I also listen to a lot of indigenous music. My ears can handle a lot of dissonance. I am always studying classical and modern composition, theory, and counterpoint, and the jazz masters as well. And I am always checking out different guitar methods, as I do like to teach music. Most of what I practice and study has no real application within the genres I play, but the knowledge allows me to stretch it to the limit while sticking to the genre rules. Like they say. You have to know the rules to break the rules. And I like to smash the rules to pieces.
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Bob Elliott
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5/9/2016 8:42:52 PM
I began learning standards a little less than two,years ago. The steady memorization of these songs has made me stronger as a musician than anything else ever has, and it's no contest.
I spend a lot of time on them now. They affect everything. My gentleness with the guitar, the way I sing, the way I write, my memory, and mostly they make every other thing I play seem easy, and I play other things with such a more relaxed feel.
Wish I'd started this way in the beginning, but it is nice to revolutionize myself at this stage in the game, too. Very nice.
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Larree
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5/9/2016 10:29:37 PM
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Great idea, Bob! I think I am going to revisit the standards. Nice tip!
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