At 1:02 PM -0800 3/31/00, Isabelle Bracamonte wrote:
>Wow... I took a peek at that poll I put up (I thought
>I'd test of all these strange Onelist features), and I
>have to say -- whoever you four listers are who
>practice more than 8 hours a week, I'm impressed!
>
>I find it hard to practice for more than an hour at a
>time (I get tired, working difficult lines over and
>over), and I also don't practice on my lesson days --
>so I average probably 4 hours a week. And it feels
>like a lot.
>
>Isabelle B.
I'm with you Isabelle. If I don't get vocally tired after an hour, at the
least I get mentally tired (which is just a short step away from vocally
tired) so I take frequent breaks and tend not to practice as much on lesson
or coaching days, or if I have a big rehearsal in the evening.
The mental practice, on the other hand, is something I could do a lot more
of. The back of my brain works on my music a lot, but engaging the front
of my brain on that kind of stuff can be sporadic for me. I'll go through
periods of great curiosity and spend lots of time in the library, and then
I'll go through periods of playing too much solitaire on the computer or
whatever...
Naomi
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