Tone wrote:Hi Nial,
I would love to share things about candomble if people are interested.
It is wildly overlooked by us afro-cuban maniacs.
I am going out to play in a little while and as soon as I have recuperated I will start a new thread with some infos. We'll see if the forum wants to take it further. It is as endless a subject as the Cuban stuff, so I don't know where to start.
I will probably film and record tonight, so I can put some of that on you tube for everybody to see. Tonight is Ketu.
Axe!
Tone wrote:Hi Nial,
I would love to share things about candomble if people are interested.
It is wildly overlooked by us afro-cuban maniacs.
I am going out to play in a little while and as soon as I have recuperated I will start a new thread with some infos. We'll see if the forum wants to take it further. It is as endless a subject as the Cuban stuff, so I don't know where to start.
I will probably film and record tonight, so I can put some of that on you tube for everybody to see. Tonight is Ketu.
Axe!
Doctor_J wrote:I think Leedy2 is right about 45 mins a day is good. Every so often I get in a groove and I can play 2-3 hours straight but after I ahve to soak my hands in hot water and epsom salt......you really don't need to practice that much. I dance salsa as well.....I used to go to class about 3 times a week 1.5 hrs each time. I learned just fine. Don't need to practice no 7 hours a day.....only can do that if you don't have a JOB or no other hobbies that you do. Even with synthetic heads 7 hours a day is going to hurt your hands. Some people go overboard on lots of things.......too much of a good thing is a BAD THING!
roberthelpus wrote:And then there are knuckleheads that want to continue to be multi-instrumentalists while working too much overtime. I've recently picked up guitar again and have somewhat let congas go, to focus more on bongo. So lately it's been bongo one day and guitar the next. Fortunately I do think that there is some carry over effect from playing any one instrument to any other instrument. At least mentally, if not physically.
Jibaro wrote:Not 7 hours a day... 10,000 hours total, which is 4 hours per day for 7 years.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 969415.eceIt is practice, however, that makes perfect, according to the sociologist whose books have become required reading within the Conservative party. The best way to achieve international stardom is to spend 10,000 hours honing your skills, says the new book by Malcolm Gladwell, author of the best-selling The Tipping Point.
“What’s really interesting about this 10,000-hour rule is that it applies virtually everywhere,” Gladwell told a conference held by The New Yorker magazine. “You can’t become a chess grand master unless you spend 10,000 hours on practice.
Three hours is about my max, and then not at all the next day.
vasikgreif wrote:roberthelpus wrote:And then there are knuckleheads that want to continue to be multi-instrumentalists while working too much overtime. I've recently picked up guitar again and have somewhat let congas go, to focus more on bongo. So lately it's been bongo one day and guitar the next. Fortunately I do think that there is some carry over effect from playing any one instrument to any other instrument. At least mentally, if not physically.
Same here, I studied saxophone on conservatory, but lately I play much more piano - jazz, timba/salsa, flamenco, all those genres I try to do really seriously. To all that I learn bata/folkloric music on congas, shekere etc.
The good thing about this is I have pretty decent overview how things work, I can help any member of the band with his part etc. The bad thing, obviously, is, I cannot play any of the instruments really well, technicaly. One has to practice few hours a day on ONE instrument to become a master of it, and every great musician I know did that at least for few years and continues to practice at least two hours every day.
So, I'm thinking about stopping my saxophone playing for a while. I'm 27 years old, and I'm really bored of myself not doing things properly, so I think it would make more sense to simply focus on piano and bata...
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