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Thread #151874 Message #3549421
Posted By: GUEST,Stim
15-Aug-13 - 11:27 AM
Thread Name: What keeps you practicing music?
Subject: RE: What keeps you practicing music?
I am a guitar player, and I practice a lot. Three or four hours a day is not unusual for me, though a lot of it is fooling around rather than concentrated drill.
Generally, I work on scales, or play rhythmic phrases through a chord progression, or something like that. I don't perform any more, so I don't have a polished repertoire that I work with (probably should, just in case, but...) Lately, I've been playing around with a descending scale that moves from the first down to the fifth. I start in C (eighth fret, high E string) and move thru the circle of 4ths all the way down the neck. You can spend hours doing stuff like that.
I tend get distracted and jump around a lot, too,and I've taken to making an effort to concentrate and stay on things till I've got them finished. Easier said than done, though...