Practicing - Playing a Musical Instrument



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... for sharing ideas about playing / practicing, particularly making practicing fun.

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

Make practicing social ...

sociocultural context ... if music is 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. Create an immersive milieu, by playing yourselves, where there's so much music around to 'converse' with, 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 wants to start a group music playing time in a Google Hangout in group video chat, possibly Wednesdays at 9 pm PT, where everyone plays their own instrument, but can turn on this instrument or person, or that one, to play together, if so desired ... (bagpipe, voice, guitar ... the instrument 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.)



"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 :)



At least 20 minutes a day of playing, per instrument, or singing, with enjoyment, and socially some of the time?



How to make regular playing / practices, in a rock band, pipe band or chamber music group, really fun, getting to 'space,' for example, like the Grateful Dead did?

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 or similarly moving, and accessible, music, listen to good, related CDs ...

Publish my article in a WUaS academic journal in this subject
Open Journal Systems. 2012. Open Journal Systems. Public Knowledge Project.

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

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.

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

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