I’m very interested in circadian rhythms and how they effect our mental and physical performance.
Personally ; I feel more mental focus earlier in the day, and yet feel more physical capabilities later in the day.
I’m very interested in circadian rhythms and how they effect our mental and physical performance.
Personally ; I feel more mental focus earlier in the day, and yet feel more physical capabilities later in the day.
When I was at music school I used to practise all night, because I’ve had insomnia since I was 17. I was inconsiderate bastard and you could hear me playing from across the street at 3 am.
I used to do my serious practice between 6 and 9 in the morning, and then a couple of hours after lunch. Happy days.
My insomnia now means I’m not mentally up for practicing between 6 and 9 as that’s my zombie period, so I’m much more sporadic and do inconsistent bits during the day. I still find after lunch a pretty decent period though.
Morning 10-1:30, after which it is time to rest n harass chicks online
I wish I could play like you on that little practice. I needed 4 hours just to stay in current form, 6+ to actually improve.
Dude, I always practiced very little.
That said, for this pimp comp I’m doing 3 hours morning plus 2 more in the evening, but never past 8pm…
The most important thing is rotating the rep every day of the week and maintain, constantly rework everything.
I’ve neglected the pimp 1 + tot combo and will start longer prax sessions next week.
Also, keeping your concentration for around 5 hours a day is hard
Da phone is often RIGHT THERE, n u know u juz wanna check yo texts n take random half nude vids
Da zepp uzually prax aftah midnight on da zilent drum-track digi
Zo dat in da mornin
when I unleazh da zheeyat I learnt da nite b4 on da zepp 88
Da actual zound of da zong wud cummah az a zhock n inzpire even mo fury from da zepp
HAHAHA DA LATE NIGHT UNLEASH a approved prax ztyle!
Didn’t da HO wake at 3 pm?
I’m sure when da Ho unleashed 20 solo rectals, all with different rep, in 5 months - hiz azz woke up at 6am, mofo
TRU I meant da old chilled HO not da young gensui
Haha tru.
I wish da Ho maintained dat huge of a rep during da RECS era
Morningz from about 10:00-13:00, then aftah lunch if there iz time and moi iz not occupied with teaching or other sheeyat…
I have significantly upped my prax tym dis summah. Building even a small amount of NEW rep is a major pain in da ass
Now I usually do 5 hours a day, 3 in da morning, 2 in da afternoon.
Also random summer jobs (few in numbah) and composition.
@da_zepp
hardest part if making up creative excuses fo da as to why I cannot spend those early 3 hours of da morning on da phone wiz her.
I can only ever practice Sunday morning or Saturday afternoon. Maybe a half hour before concentration breaks and I start going backward. Then I listen to tunes with what is left of focus. That’s when I get max enjoyment. Really appreciate work in even lame perfs.
I nearly always only get to play or practice in the evenings, and even then, not very often; 2 or 3 proper sessions (anything above 1 hour) a week would be a very good week. That will always be on my Avantgrand (the problem of living in a Georgian terraced house!). Sometimes I’ll come home in the afternoon and play on my acoustic for enjoyment, but that only happens extremely rarely.
In the weeks before a concert or recording session, I’ll try to do a little more, but how much I can do depends on what’s going on in the day job. I have to be careful, though – if I were to jump straight in to 5+ hour sessions of physically demanding repertoire, I’d probably end up injuring myself.
I have a pretty erratic work schedule, so I prefer late evenings when I know for sure that I’m not needed by somebody… My creative mind kicks in the most at around 11pm-2am, but I’m usually playing for random people during the day.
While I’m sleeping.
Yep. And that’s a curse!
5am (with coffee). Unfortunately I rarely get up to do this but when I do, it supercharges my brain for the rest of the day.
edit: oh ya, and I can only do this with headphones on the digi Yamaha cause of pesky family…