Whats the longest you've ever practiced?

[TRtrumpet]

So txbands hasent been the most livelyest place lately so I though I'd start a new topic.

 

So whats the longest you've ever practiced in one period of time with out stoping. My record is 5 hours... haha yeah im a nerd.

[FunkyFlute07]

mine's not terribly long...maybe like 4. or that day of district tryouts. i skipped all of my classes to practice because tryouts were in the afternoon and i wasn't ready.

[euro_euph06]

You wouldn't believe me.

[TRtrumpet]

Try me

[itsstephenyo]

i've gone just about all day once last summer. i woke up around ten, pulled my sax out around 10:30 and practiced until about 9 with a few short breaks in between. needless to say, i've never done that again. it was a little weird. i just really, really wanted to play my saxophone.

[TRtrumpet]

WOW. And I though mine was long, lol.

[euro_euph06]

I woke up about 7 am on a Saturday--ate breakfast, took a crap, etc. Started roughly about 8 am. Warmed up on lip slurs, progressed to tonguing (single, double, then triple), then went to scales (major, minor--natural, harmonic, melodic). Played them in different patterns (8/16, 16/32. tongue up/slur down, etc). Then I ate lunch and used the restroom about 1 pm--watched a little bit of the TV. Started up again about 2:30. Then I started to practice my audition music for wind ensemble auditions for college. That piece is a bioch. I ended about 5:30/6ish. Then I put ice on my lips.

[thesnareguy]

5 hrs. straight working on the four mallet etude for Region Band. I practiced and practiced, made it as good as I could get it, and I messed up on it at the 2nd round auditions.

[Claritone]

Honestly, maybe like two hours. Usually I don't practice for really long periods of time, I just try to practice almost every day for at least 30-45 minutes.

[sax5warrior]

Its not good to practice continously

 

if you practice for 1 hour, your brain only remembers 20% of what you practiced, so thats about 13 minutes of actual practice

 

if youre going to practice for that long, i suggest you take frequent breaks for 5-10 minutes

 

But i did practice 4 hours for TSSEC

 

1 hour before school

 

1 hour during class

 

30 minutes lunch

 

1 and a half after school

[euro_euph06]

  sax5warrior said:

Its not good to practice continously

 

if you practice for 1 hour, your brain only remembers 20% of what you practiced, so thats about 13 minutes of actual practice

 

if youre going to practice for that long, i suggest you take frequent breaks for 5-10 minutes

I disagree with these statements. But that is my opinion--as you are entitled to yours.

[manuel_pablo]

  euro_euph06 said:

I disagree with these statements. But that is my opinion--as you are entitled to yours.

There is an article I came across last night that says that taking breaks helps you make memories.

Here's some quotes from the article...

 

Coffee Break Brain: Study Finds Taking Breaks Helps Form Memories

"David Foster and his colleagues say that when rats take a break while exploring an unfamiliar area, their brains instantly replay the information they've just gathered."

 

"'This immediately suggested some kind of learning mechanism occurring at times when the animal has just had an experience, but has in fact stopped,' he says.

Foster theorizes that this repeated rewind gives other parts of the brain time to process and store the information."

 

"Perhaps we don't take breaks seriously enough," Foster says. "Perhaps we're wrong to expect all learning to occur on the job. Perhaps an important part of learning in general, and in jobs and at school, is occurring during breaks."

 

link: http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view....le_id=218392812

[itsstephenyo]

yea, personally, i don't agree with that either.

 

over the christmas break this past year i started learning my solo for solo/ensemble. i would do about four to five hours continuously everyday. after the second day, i had a page and a half of the music memorized. and i promise you, it wasn't anything easy. check out dubois concert for saxophone third movement. i prefer practicing in long sessions cuz i memorize things pretty easily. at the end of the first week, i could play the entire six page movement by memory. not cleanly, but i could.

[TRtrumpet]

  itsstephenyo said:

i prefer practicing in long sessions cuz i memorize things pretty easily.

 

same with me. i love practicing... lol. i never practice under like 2 hours. mostly more though. i'll do like 2 hours on trumpet then practice my sax for an hour or 2 later in the day.

[artishard]

um, i try to determine a really great practice by how much i get done, not by time...therefore, my longest productive practice time would most definitely be 1 hour, 30ish minutes. sounds weak, but i get more done when i practice in short spurts.

[ClaireAnnette07]

My record was about 3 hours...I had a break between my Pre-Area auditions and my region chair seating auditions. Needless to say, I didn't do so hot in the chair auditions. I got 41/58 or something like that. Amazingly enough, I still placed first in the 4A region

[TX Suh-nare]

With percussion director: All night, 7pm-7am, usually 1.5-2 hr chop sessions at a time, so your wrists have lost all feeling and you're dead tired just in time to drive home.

 

By myself: No comment.

[TxRaider13]

You would think they would close these old topics or get rid of them

Edited October 9, 2010 by TxRaider13

[takigan]

I've actually considered from time to time of going back and *bumping* a bunch of old topics that I think would be interesting to rekindle discussion for.

 

We encourage users to resurrect old topics if they feel they have a new perspective to offer to the thread. As TxBands is an archive just as much as it is a community we will never delete dead threads unless there's valid reason to (SPAM, inappropriate content, uncalled-for conduct etc.)

[TxRaider13]

  takigan said:

I've actually considered from time to time of going back and *bumping* a bunch of old topics that I think would be interesting to rekindle discussion for.

 

We encourage users to resurrect old topics if they feel they have a new perspective to offer to the thread. As TxBands is an archive just as much as it is a community we will never delete dead threads unless there's valid reason to (SPAM, inappropriate content, uncalled-for conduct etc.)

 

 

Ahh well I will do my part and look for one to bring back like "Word"

[Cfam]

You wouldn't believe me.

 

30 minutes.

 

oh, the perks of having full perfect pitch and ability to play everything near perfectly by ear.

[Nope]

and modest too!

  Cfam said:

You wouldn't believe me.

 

30 minutes.

 

oh, the perks of having full perfect pitch and ability to play everything near perfectly by ear.

[mrwood69]

I don't need to practice.

[TxRaider13]

IDK the longest, but the shortest I have ever practiced was today, for 2min..I had a really bad case of puffy lips