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That's the case at this restaurant we started playing at recently. Dozen of TV's around the place, all are on. It takes me a considerable will power to ignore them.
I do some of both.
I think hands on the guitar is generally a positive. I don't think the idea that you're going to give the guitar 100% attention every minute is maybe rational for normal people. Maybe for Jaco and Birelli. I don't know. Intense musicians maybe can do that. Or not?
I am embaressed that I just signed up for Netflix so I could watch Drive to Survive and I've been practicing while watching it. I am not even that into it, I'm looking forward to being done so I can block netflix again and practice normally.
I have a file of "boring videos" that I have when my attention isn't great. I can have them on in the background. Formula 1 races are pretty good. I watch some machining instruction videos and stuff like that. It can keep my subconscious quiet a bit and keep me from getting up out of the chair.
It is interesting about subtitles...I can read perfectly well while practicing.
In my case, I never practice while watching TV. But I allow myself to practice in a noisy environment. Lately when I'm practicing during day, it at the dining table so I'm surrounded by the sound of the TV, or a video game, kitchen noise etc...I still practice focused and try to have a good quality input.
I have a question . . . Oh look, squirrel
That's what Dog Man would do
Distracted practice
A couple years ago, I went to visit the Louis Armstrong house in Queens-Corona NYC and the guide told me all about how old Satchmo liked to practice his horn..
I don’t personally practice this way, but it sounds like fun and it doesn’t seem to have hurt Louis’s ear too badly…
Will
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
When I got to
#8. The museum has literally literally hundreds of....
my mind jumped ahead to ...smoked doobies. 😂
I am presently stuck on a train parked at the station in Rochester NY due to a storm ahead blowing down a utility pole across the tracks.
So gather round, young’uns and I will tell you a wonderful Louis Armstrong story.
***
This was told to me by a Toronto friend, Shukri, a retired University of Toronto professor now in his eighties, who grew up in Cairo, Egypt.
Shukri’s family were members of a Coptic Christian church, which is a fairly small sect in Egypt.
One of Shukri’s fellow teenage Coptic buddies had a father with a great job… he was the owner/manager of a large downtown theatre.
This meant the boys had automatic free tickets for any visiting attraction they wished to see.
And when Shukri found out that Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars were scheduled to appear, he arranged to get four tickets for each one of their four shows.
The first three shows were fantastic, but the fourth and final show was something unexpected and rare.
After Louis and the All-Stars had finished their first set, there was an intermission during which the All-Stars packed up their instruments and left the stage. Then a group of Egyptian musicians appeared and set up their instruments.
These were not jazz musicians, but some of the top players in various hotel lounges around the city. They played traditional Egyptian melodies based upon traditional Egyptian ie non-Western scales. And it was announced that they would be accompanying Louis for the second set.
Louis had never met any of these musicians, nor did he know the first thing about Egyptian music.
As the band began to play their first number, Louis stood on stage smiling and listening carefully.
During the second number, Louis played tentatively with his back turned to the audience as he attempted to find his way into this strange new sound.
By the third number, Louis felt confident enough to join the band, now playing at full volume.
By the fourth number, Louis had the Egyptian audience in front of him standing and cheering.
By the fifth number, and subsequent numbers, Louis had the Egyptian musicians behind him standing and cheering.
****
Now, THAT, my friends is what I call an ear of pure gold!
Oh, to have been there!
Shukri said it was one of the greatest things he ever experienced.
And to me, it was one of the most wonderful stories I’ve ever heard.
I hope you enjoyed it too.
Will
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
Can you play also without tracks? I like to practice in front of the tv, when I practice too focused I tend to become too stiff afraid of making a mistake