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Duane Allman on practice

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  • bachophileB Offline
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    "You've got to wake up, brush your teeth, and practice, then have yourself some coffee, and practice some more, have lunch, and practice some more, and have dinner, and practice some more. Ya get my meaning?" Duane continued his sermon: "Maybe after dinner, you want to go out for a while and listen to some cats play something different, but when you get home, you practice what you heard that night that impressed you while it's still fresh, and you go to bed thinking about it, and wake up and do it all over again the next day. You have to treat it like a job, but it's not a job, it's so damn much more than just a job. Work at it for at least eight hours a day or it's just another f***ing hobby, and you might as well be building model airplanes with your thumb up your ass. But the cool thing is...while you are doing all of this, you just naturally start going down the right roads. If you are going to make music your life, you'll make certain important decisions, you see...along the line. And if you make those decisions in a logical manner, the top is the only place you.


    Duane Allman apprising Bill Thames about the importance of practice.

    Excerpt from "Paper, Scissors, Rock-n-Roll: Ringo, Duane, & Me" by Bill Thames.

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      Love that. I should be so diligent.

      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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        Vladimir Horowitz was supposed to have said, “if I don’t practice for one day, I can hear it. If I don’t practice for two days, my wife can hear it. If I don’t practice for three days, my audience can hear it. “

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          Cool advice. Beginner/intermediate pianists find small amounts of practice completely grueling, but I think advanced pianists can "practice" with much less mental effort. That accounts for how they can do it for so many hours per day.

          Education is extremely important.

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            The Ling Ling regimen: practice 40 hours per day.

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              Rachmaninov practising:

              “Arriving at the designated hour of twelve,” he wrote, “I heard an occasional piano sound as I approached the cottage. I stood outside the door, unable to believe my ears. Rachmaninov was practising Chopin’s Étude in thirds, but at such a snail’s pace that it took me a while to recognise it because so much time elapsed between each finger stroke at the next.”

              Chasins was so fascinated by the slow speed that he looked at his watch to clock what he was hearing. He reported that “twenty seconds per bar was his pace for almost an hour”. Chasins described himself as “rivetted to the spot, quite unable to ring the bell”.

              Full article:

              https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/the-rachmaninov-method-practise-like-a-snail-play-like-a-gazelle-1.4012834

              Elbows up!

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