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    I'm too busy noodling to practice.
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    I don't practice because of the commitment. I hate commitment.
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    I find it quite interesting, and humorous, that a thread about not practicing has gone this far. Even more, that I follow this thread and have read every post. Now I don't feel all alone.
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    I know the thread is intended to be something to giggle about, but I love practicing. It's so hard to find time to do it, but I would play 8 hours every day if I could. More!

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    Me too, I love practising.
    The problem I have is that I practice tunes in order to record them for the Song a Week Social group on the Forum here on MandolinCafe. And I can play them reasonably well, I mean I’m happy enough with them.

    And then they’re ready to record...
    but I can not record them!

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    I don't have time to practice now that I am becoming a Wordle Master. And sharing my victories with friends and family.
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    I can't practice now, I am too busy recording my progress in this really cool practice journal I made. Not much progress, but a cool journal.

    I am too busy telling people how much I practice.
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    I am just not motivated to practice, what with Covid and this endless quarantine. I mean, who is even ever going to hear how good I might get?


    With all these COVID restrictions being lifted I am far too busy going out the diner and the movies to stay at home and practice.
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    Leave me alone, I am designing the perfect practice regimen.
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    I don't know how to get motivated to practice. I am reading some great motivational books.
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    I was actually in the earthquake of 1989, in Palo Alto California. I was playing guitar at the time, and I didn't practice for the whole afternoon. Yep, an earthquake will do that.

    Then in the evening about 10 of us camped out in the garden and we played a LOT of music, with very bad technique. We drank some alcohol, didn't sleep all night, and some of my friends needed weed - the earthquake had cut their supply line from Santa Cruz. One of them had just sold their entire stash for X3 to a computer guy.

    Paranoia at breakfast: ‘who caused this earthquake anyway? Was he really a computer guy? Have all weed plants been destroyed by the earthquake? No, we don’t know they’re safe! …bad earthquake. …Will you STOP playing that guitar?!’
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    I have to watch praticing too much! I just get so good I can hardly stand it!

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    I can't practice because its too hard to decide what to work on. Too much to chose from. Do I work on third position, do I work on alto clef, do I work on arpeggios, do I work on string transitions, rhythm, strumming, picking slip jigs, tremolo, Foure's Pavane? They say work on what you are not good at. Well that sure doesn't narrow it down much.
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    I just heard Avi Avital playing, and what more can be done on the mandolin? What is the point of practicing anymore?
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    Hey JeffD you’re doing great!
    I always think to myself, ‘one day I going to be able to afford a whole bunch of lessons and then I’ll know what I’m doing wrong!’

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    I nearly cut the tip of my left index finger off today. That might put an end to practice for a few days... or at least until I can get the bleeding under control.

    Does anyone know the number for 911?

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    Quote Originally Posted by azb View Post
    Does anyone know the number for 911?
    Call information at 411. They should have it.

    If we don't hear from you again, we'll know what happened.
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    My wife is napping - can't interfere with that! I'll practice when she awakens. Unless she wants me to do the chores I put off so I wouldn't wake her up.

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    I don't know what kind of music I want to play. No point in practicing if I have no direction.
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    How can I practice if I sound so bad.


    I don't need to practice I sound so good.
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    The only time I have to practice is Thursday nights. And that is the night I am supposed to go to the gym. Yea I am too busy not going to the gym to practice.
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    I heard these forty years ago, it does make you realise that self-confidence is important:

    -I know myself better than you! If I practice people will know how bad I am.
    -Why would I ‘just pick up the instrument’? I’m not even good enough to practice!
    -Don’t you tell me, ‘come on, you can do it’, how dare you!

    And the 1970’s, most heart breaking:
    -I’m unemployed, how can I practice when I’m unemployed?!

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    A few years back our band was entertaining at a local venue and we decided to play a set of three tunes we had put together which all had connections with our local county, Argyllshire, here in Scotland. We announced the set and told the audience that this was the first outing for the set and that we had been practising several times during the week. When we had finished and were waiting for the rapturous applause to die down (?) a man in the front row asked us, "When you said you had been practising all week, were you all in the same room?" Is this a good enough reason to abandon practice?
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    I can't practice yet as I am still working on my oak and copper foot rest.

    I can't practice yet as I am not really happy with the instrument stand I built.

    I can't practice yet as I am working on finishing my teak pedal board.
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    I will practice in a bit, after I finish perusing the Women With Mandolins thread.
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