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Post by Marine. on Apr 19, 2008 19:40:38 GMT -5
like, 1 month during summer 07
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Post by trumpetbabe69 on Apr 22, 2008 23:06:48 GMT -5
3 months? ish? all of summer... every summer? until the week before band camp?
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minos
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Post by minos on Jun 21, 2008 1:47:02 GMT -5
Two months on clarinet... and then I decided, after two months off, to memorize all of my marching music in one day. I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE. My lips were so entirely dead. Just the memory is terrible. I'm pretty much scarred for life.
I've never taken more than a week off from my trumpet, though. I feel like just two days without playing sets me back, so even when I don't have time, I try to play for at least ten minutes every day
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Post by bluescalesdragon on Jun 25, 2008 13:15:28 GMT -5
10 days. I swear. I was on vacation and all I could think about were my saxophones.
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Post by trumpetskickbrass on Jul 25, 2008 22:42:31 GMT -5
probably a couple of weeks. it was terrible. and right now, my good trumpet is getting cleaned, so i havent practiced in a while. I picked up my crappy trumpet yesterday and tried playing it after not playing in like 2 weeks, and my lip muscles have gone strait to hell. I get my good trumpet back tomorrow though, thank god.
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Post by Duel of the Flutes on Jul 30, 2008 11:26:23 GMT -5
Well, it varies for me because of how many instruments I play. There's a bunch of instruments that I just kind of pick up randomly and never, ever practice, so that's kind of irrevelant to the information you need.
The ones I play on a regular basis, though... well, I'm not really sure what the longest is. A lot of times during the summer, I don't practice my sax nearly at all, which is obviously a bad thing. Then I realize a week before school starts that it may help if I can actually play on my 3 1/2 reeds without killing myself before jazz band starts. Wow, is that ever a strange experience. Mostly, it just hurts... a lot. That, and I have to remember not to put so much air through the instrument, as I'm used to doing for flute.
The worst thing, though, is definitely when you pick up a different instrument. When I got to Blue Lake, I was fresh out of Interlochen and sounding absolutely awesome on flute... but I was at Blue Lake for horn. I had decided that I would use my free time to practice flute, but it didn't really happen. The first full day there, I got out my flute at rec time, and couldn't play worth crap because 1) my embouchure was already dead from playing an instrument I hadn't played in 2 weeks for about 4 hours, let alone a brass instrument, and 2) I was mentally exhausted. Weirdly enough, though, I went to community band the day after I got home, and didn't play as badly as I expected. Everything just felt really strange.
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Post by altosax4life on Aug 30, 2008 22:46:48 GMT -5
I've gone a year without practicing because i thought i was going to quit band.
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Post by tinkerbell on Sept 20, 2008 17:22:03 GMT -5
I haven't practiced flute since June when I quit flute lessons. I've still kept up with three other insturments though. Flute had been my main insturment up until last year, but my teacher pushed me so hard, for so long, that I got frusterated and just took a break. I'm goingn to start lessons again after marching band season is over. I am marching piccolo, though, so I have been playing a lot of piccolo, so I won't lose the flute embouchoure or anything.
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Post by clarinetrox2012 on Dec 4, 2008 14:25:46 GMT -5
A month. After I finally picked my clarinet up again, I pretty much sucked and was very squeaky.
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Post by KUguardgrl13 on Dec 4, 2008 16:46:01 GMT -5
back in elementary and middle school i almost never practiced my viola. only when i was in the chamber orchestra because my stand partner in the full orchestra was in football, basketball, and track. whenever we have a break from guard, i almost never touch my equipment either.
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Post by bandman001 on Dec 5, 2008 20:49:35 GMT -5
The longest I have ever gone without practicing is a month. When I picked it up again, I lost a lot of endurance and had to switch to a smaller mouthpiece.
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Post by zirbo on Dec 6, 2008 0:52:29 GMT -5
Ever since i started getting more serious about Saxophone at the end of last year (soph year), i've probably gone at MOST a week without practicing, probably because of my lessons. I always feel bad walking into my lessons and having to say that i didn't have as much time to practice as i wanted.
Hey just wondering, but does anyone else think that practicing helps with stress? I remember one week i just had no time to practice because of a bunch of tests, studying, hw, and jazz band/marching band after school every day and i was really stressed out. Took out my sax to play, it was amazing! After practicing i just felt so refreshed and energized. I felt much better, and wasn't as stressed out.
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Post by mhycal on Dec 9, 2008 20:14:15 GMT -5
Would have to be two months. Like most people, over the summer vacation from school. Going back to school, tone was terrible, breathing was shot...just wasn't good. Once I was back into the regular routine, things shaped up.
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Post by stickshifty on Dec 15, 2008 0:36:46 GMT -5
I think I had gone a month (summer) without playing when my mom threatened to sell my horn...
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Post by altoclarinets on Dec 29, 2008 23:03:16 GMT -5
I don't usually "not practice"- just kind of slack off, only play once every 2 or 3 days instead of daily. Usually happens over holiday breaks. Like this one. (self flagellates as punishment)
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