Tag: practice

  • How To Get Pregnant – Even If….

    Even if you are a man! There’s a man behind this idea – sax player Ned Rothenberg, to be exact. He described his practicing as “getting pregnant” creatively. Here is the article where he mentions it. I really admire his improvisations. He must spend a lot of the time pregnant! His CD “Amulet” with Tuvan…

  • The Value of Time

    I’d like to keep a running blog, something I can keep coming back to, on just how long it takes to do stuff. Especially practice things. We are all told – do your Moyse long tones! do your scales! etc. However, I notice that with my students and myself, under the gun and with a…