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This page is for sharing ideas about playing / practicing, particularly for making practicing fun or enjoyable. Explore enjoying the sounds of the music your instrument generates.



Here are some developing, online, Music Playing Spaces, that are free and open: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2012/06/music-playing-spaces-on-wednesdays-and.html.



Try to play / practice at least 20 minutes a day, per instrument, or sing, - with enjoyment, and socially some of the time. Explore in your playing music-making communicatively, e.g. a grandmother plays 'Pop goes the weasel' on her violin and her 5 year granddaughter plays the 'pop' sound on her own little violin, plucking a strings, and hears this, makes music and loves it; extend this.



Marsalis, Wynton and Yo-Yo Ma. 2010. Guidelines for practicing a musical instrument. scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm



"Recording became a habit and I have pretty much kept the recorder running for over 30 years." (PM Jack Lee - http://www.leeandsonsbagpipes.com/news/ - who has won every major prize in solo and pipeband bagpiping) ... seems like a good practice when learning and practicing the bagpipe, or practice chanter (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials), and or instrument (see the Music School at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School). I'm going to begin this practice - just got a new hard drive with more disk space :)



Use the word 'playing,' vis-a-vis playfulness, to transform the negative connotations of the word practicing, linguistically?

Sociocultural context ... if people are making music all around, with a lot of good models, and people to play with, the learning of technique, which can take hours, can be part of a conversation. Also, create an immersive milieu, by playing yourselves, where there's so much music around to 'converse' with, that your children pick up music freely, and learn by playing with.

I think playing / practicing a musical instrument is more fun socially than independently, and facilitating open and free 'Music Playing Spaces' in a Google + Hangout in group video chat online, can makes this possible in new ways. If you'd like to try this, email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com or simply join one when it's happening on the worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com G+ page. See, too ...   http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2012/06/music-playing-spaces-on-wednesdays-and.html and http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/12/black-buck-free-musical-education-at.html ... where everyone plays their own instrument, muting ourselves ... (any e.g. bagpipe, voice, guitar ... play the instrument with which you want to develop 'flow' experiences with :). Let me know if you're interested ... This will help further the World University Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School. (S.M.)



How to make regular playing / practices, in a rock band, pipe band, a capella singing group or chamber music group, really fun, getting to 'space,' for example, like the Grateful Dead did? What's the 'structure' of regular, most-fun music-playing together (in the beginning of music-making, and for experienced musicians)?

ideas: ... listen, relax, let musicians choose their own music, keep the group small, regularly make time to explore improvisation, with a musician facilitating this with the other musicians, begin with the blues. J.S. Bach or similarly moving, and accessible, music, listen to good, related CDs, mp3s, in Music-playing Spaces in a Google + Group Video chat hangout ...

Explore jamming at http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Musical_Jamming :)



I've found there to be little frustrations when learning a musical instrument, and that returning to the relaxation response, or the neurophysiology (release) of soaking in the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool at about body temperature, and / or a regular meditation practice to be helpful, as a kind of bodymind basis to return home to, and from which even to play.



Find a way to get paid money for playing/practicing. For example, if you join a police bagpipe band, as well as the police, in Scotland, you may get paid for bagpiping, and possibly for as much as 2 hours per day (in addition to the other aspects of this job).



Translate the 'discipline' word, which has negative connotations (for me) into the word 'focus' and find the joy of focusing daily. (S.M.)



Structure and vary your practice for your own instrument:

For example, with bagpiping you might play, beginning with 10 minutes, and building up to 1-5 hours per day in your year 7 +:

Piobaireachd on Mondays and Thursdays

March, Strathspeys and Reels on Tuesday and Fridays and

Hornpipes, Jigs, Slow Airs, etc., on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Then adapt such a schedule / structure for your own instrument.



Play, play, play every day into the bodymind electric :)

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Select Books
Bruser, Madeline, and Yehudi Menuhin. 1999. The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart. (3rd Printing edition). Three Rivers Press.

Klickstein, Gerald. 2009. The Musician's Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness. Oxford University Press. Kurtz, Glenn. 2007. Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music. Knopf.

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"Great show ! I remember Jerry saying﻿ in an interview about this time in his playing he was practicing up to 8 hours a day with a minimum of 2 to 3 hours a day.He said if he did not play every day, after 3 days he would completely lose his edge,miss notes, not play sharp and have to practice back into it.We miss you Jerry !" (A comment from this Dead show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldse7hpLphY)

"In terms of thinking through practicing further (still not yet for flourishing :), - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Practicing_-_Playing_a_Musical_Instrument - I'll think I'll start to add some more specific goals (per Marsalis and Ma) - instead of just repeating and thereby furthering fluidity and bodymind memory." (S.M.)

Select References
Buttwinick, Marty. 2009. Guidelines For Practicing A Musical Instrument. www.mineeds.com/Glendale/Personalized-Music-Lessons.

Extended technique. 2012. Extended technique. (Extended technique is a term used in music to describe unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional methods of singing or of playing musical instruments employed to obtain unusual sounds or timbres.[1]). Wikipedia.

Foregard, Marie, Ellen Winner, Andrea Norton, and Gottfried Schlaug. 2008. Practicing a Musical Instrument in Childhood is Associated with Enhanced Verbal Ability and Nonverbal Reasoning. PLoS ONE 3(10): e3566.

How To Practice A Musical Instrument. 2012. How To Practice A Musical Instrument: Tips for practicing an instrument for players at all levels. www.essortment.com/.

Marsalis, Wynton and Yo-Yo Ma. 2010. Guidelines for practicing a musical instrument. scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm

Spitzer, Peter. 2012. How to practice a musical instrument. Mountain View, CA: hopestreetmusicstudios.com.

Memorizing Music

Aviles, Cesar. 2010. How can I Memorize a 40 minute Piece of Music?. Oct 30. Tips for classical musicians.

Olmstead, Mary. 2006. Yo yo Ma memorizing music. (Yo yo Ma on memorizing music). Chicago, IL: Raintree.

Simon. 2010. Music Memorization. January 1. Musician Matters.

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