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Post by phillipr on Mar 6, 2012 1:15:59 GMT
Hello All!!! I'm sorry I haven't really been posting much lately. Family duties and school work have kept me rather busy.
I've been wondering, how do you all organize your practice time? I confess that my practice time has absolutely no structure whatsoever, and I'm really starting to feel the need for structure. Any suggestions?
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Post by edcat7 on Mar 6, 2012 22:58:21 GMT
Hi Phillip
Work and kids makes practising difficult at times. Although I have other interests ie. martial arts, music has taken over my life.
I practise my dizi first, especially since I have laid it aside lately in favour of the hulusi. My familly and neighbours would get annoyed if I played it later than 10pm.
I spend a good half hour to an hour on my liuqin and zhongruan and if I'm not too tired I practise my erhu with the mute on.
Now that my performance is over I have no excuses to send you the books I photocopied a while ago.
Ed
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Post by phillipr on Mar 7, 2012 1:34:58 GMT
Thanks, Ed. So when you practice, do you spend a certain amount of time on scales, then move on to techniques, then melodies (particularly difficult passages in a melody)?
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Post by xindi on Mar 7, 2012 22:08:06 GMT
Ed is definitely more disciplined than me ... I can't read a book from start to finish. I always pick a page or chapter, and start where it looks interesting. Can't say I'm disciplined with the flute either - working late, I'm not getting time till around 10pm, and it's starting to unnerve me, thinking I might be asked to move by my landlord ahem.
When I try and put together a practice session, it invariably centres around trying to fluff around with the dimo to get it working for half an hour, before finally nailing it, by which time I have to stop.
Maybe 5 minutes on: 1.Octave jumps for the notes (embouchure and flow control) 2.Finger exercises (includes arpeggios and trills; covering the octave breaks) 3.1 practice piece. 4.1 known piece (that I'm trying to master).
In the practice piece, maybe a tricky phrase, which catches me -I'll spend about 5 minutes trying to work at it, and then piece it into the stanza.
With a known piece, mostly I'm listening for flow. I'm not a fast player, and prefer to work on an andante or quasi molto allegro kind of pace at best. Some players aim for complete perfection in reproducing the score. Since I play by sightreading, I haven't got a clue how most of the music I play should sound, so I'm trying to work out what would please me to hear.
That makes it essentially a solo session! I've never thought of dizi practice as a session. Somehow session conjures up ideas of a drinking session + music + others.
Best try - maybe to adhere to a book for structure, and try and cover a few pages each session...
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