do you need your "flute fix" every day???
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do you need your "flute fix" every day???
wondering how many people are on this list, who do also need an daily "flute fix" because otherwise they don't feel well, cannot function properly and feel they have not lived?
how long should you have been playing to fulfill your needs?
I need one hour minimum but two is better then you can make me do anything if you ask me afterwards........
berti
how long should you have been playing to fulfill your needs?
I need one hour minimum but two is better then you can make me do anything if you ask me afterwards........
berti
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ditto the lunch-hour practice~ everyday for me unless im doing errands on lunch, then i play at home later.i get a full hour... i've been caught whippin it out at stop-lights for a quickie if i catch something good on WFUV radio.
(man, that didnt quite sound right )
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I dunno that I'd say I need a fix every day. I'm still on a pretty steep learning curve, though, so I feel that I'm backsliding every day that I don't play. In addition to that, I do feel a real desire to play. Pretty much of the time. I find myself looking forward to it at work (no playing at lunchtime, that's running time, which is a real need for a fix), wishing I'd gotten in some playing if I haven't by bedtime, and generally enjoying the hell out of it whenever I am playing.
I've had a little hand pain the last few days, so I've been playing small-holed flutes. Just picked up the Hammy. First sound out of it, I felt like I'd been using a boy for a man's job. (For those of you not used to the idiom, I just mean that the Hammy has a much bigger sound than my Rudall-based flutes.) The Hammy simply kicks ass, and I still feel like I haven't gotten 10% of its capabilities.
I've had a little hand pain the last few days, so I've been playing small-holed flutes. Just picked up the Hammy. First sound out of it, I felt like I'd been using a boy for a man's job. (For those of you not used to the idiom, I just mean that the Hammy has a much bigger sound than my Rudall-based flutes.) The Hammy simply kicks ass, and I still feel like I haven't gotten 10% of its capabilities.
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Does a junkie need a fix everyday? Silly question, you will have to pry this flute from my dead hands! That is how I taught myself to play the flute, not having a teacher I had to set regimen that every day I will work at it and practice for good or bad as it may be at that time.
Now I practice the minimum of one hour a day, some mornings when I start work in the afternoon I will practice three hours, not including my lunch hours outdoors at work when the weather is good.
I believe that with any art form, the amount of practice or actual playing/painting/writing etc. you do will only make what appears to be easy to do i.e blow into a stick of wood more of a piece of art.
MarkB
Now I practice the minimum of one hour a day, some mornings when I start work in the afternoon I will practice three hours, not including my lunch hours outdoors at work when the weather is good.
I believe that with any art form, the amount of practice or actual playing/painting/writing etc. you do will only make what appears to be easy to do i.e blow into a stick of wood more of a piece of art.
MarkB
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Yes, I do need a fix every day. If I don't get it, due to tiredness or extenuating circumstances, I become hyper, distracted, and prickly. I begin to have obsessive thoughts about getting to a flute and/or what I can do to have a flute-like experience.
It is nearly the same "need" as the "need" for an endorphin fix from exercising.
It's impossible to distinguish it from the "need" to meditate, and on days when I'm happy with my practice, I'm unaware of the passage of time, so I suspect that I'm meditating a la flute or very close to it.
It is nearly the same "need" as the "need" for an endorphin fix from exercising.
It's impossible to distinguish it from the "need" to meditate, and on days when I'm happy with my practice, I'm unaware of the passage of time, so I suspect that I'm meditating a la flute or very close to it.
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ahhh that sounds so very familiar peggy!
but as for the link with meditation that is not as weird as you might think as the breathing is very the same as in meditating.......some people on the forum some time said that meditating did help their flute playing as you get some more breath control (if I remember properly)
greetings
berti
but as for the link with meditation that is not as weird as you might think as the breathing is very the same as in meditating.......some people on the forum some time said that meditating did help their flute playing as you get some more breath control (if I remember properly)
greetings
berti