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> Practicing When Tired, Is it worth it?
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post May 27 2009, 06:42 PM
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QUOTE(rovikered @ May 27 2009, 12:57 PM) *

The best time for practice is early morning when one is mentally and physically most alert.
That must be a personal thing surely - many people do not reach "mentally and physically alert" until at least 11am...


If you look back you will read that my full message begins 'I find that . . ' which I intended to be interpreted as 'In my experience . .' and everything I wrote after that is conditional upon it. Obviously, the experience of many people is different, so obviously, maledictis, you are right: it 'must be a personal thing' but also a personal thing to many others who share my experience. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post May 27 2009, 08:07 PM
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If I was practising towards a recital or something, then if I really was tired, I would find that I kept making mistakes because I wasn't 100% focussed and that would make me more tense and frustrated therefore more mistakes would creep in. Instead I would either leave the piano or just play anything for enjoyment, or even run up and down scales/arpeggios and Hanon just to play something.
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post May 28 2009, 06:38 AM
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I would argue that "completely alert and fresh" is not a "degree of tiredness" - surely it falls outside the "tiredness" scale?

Of course, in the same way that black and white fall outside the grey scale.


Seeing as I'm holding down a full time job and have other pursuits aside from piano, I'm pretty much always tired when practicing - I'm still making progress though, I just take things slowly and try to be accurate when tired (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post May 28 2009, 05:51 PM
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QUOTE(rovikered @ May 27 2009, 07:42 PM) *

QUOTE(maledictis @ May 27 2009, 04:20 PM) *

That must be a personal thing surely - many people do not reach "mentally and physically alert" until at least 11am...

If you look back you will read that my full message begins 'I find that . . ' which I intended to be interpreted as 'In my experience . .' and everything I wrote after that is conditional upon it. Obviously, the experience of many people is different, so obviously, maledictis, you are right: it 'must be a personal thing' but also a personal thing to many others who share my experience. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Sorry - a typical case of "I didn't read the post properly because I was too busy trying to think of a smart reply". My apologies.
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post May 28 2009, 07:56 PM
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Seeing as I'm holding down a full time job and have other pursuits aside from piano . . .

I always thought of being a consultant surgeon as a pretty full time job, and apart from piano I play flute and chess (and teach chess). Even so, I'm not always tired when I practice.
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post May 28 2009, 08:36 PM
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Seeing as I'm holding down a full time job and have other pursuits aside from piano . . .

I always thought of being a consultant surgeon as a pretty full time job, and apart from piano I play flute and chess (and teach chess). Even so, I'm not always tired when I practice.


Unfortunately I do a lot of weekend and on-call work what with being in IT and I have a distinct lack of ability to switch my brain off so I don't sleep much (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) I just get by on caffeine and the thought that I have plenty of time to sleep when I'm dead (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I have a few other things that I'm working towards that require quite a bit of study (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Poor single brain cell is working overtime!
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I'd better sleep and start the practice in the morning (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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