[TPIN] Bad Mornings/ Good Evenings

[Mark Smith]

The trick with early morning playing is getting your whole body to feel like 
it does in the middle of the day...  The reason many people have trouble in 
the morning is because EVERYthing feels different.  You're body just isn't 
totally "awake" yet, maybe a little stiff, or muscles are tight.  You know 
how you feel in the morning... it's different than around lunch time...

When I was in grad school I had graduate quintet rehearsal at 8 in the 
morning twice a week.  At first I really couldn't handle it, I'd suck every 
morning because it was "8 in the morning", and I was at that time a "night 
practicer" for the past few years.  Long story short... I found that just by 
doing a fair amount of certain breathing exercises on my way to rehearsal in 
the morning that my body got out of that "I can't play because it's so 
early" feeling very quickly.  From that point on the early rehearsals didn't 
bother me...  I still do those things to this day and find that the time of 
day has much much less of an impact on my playing because of it... and all 
the other problems have moved to the top of the list... ;)

-MS



>From: Howard Scudder <scudderh at k12tn.net>
>To: TPIN <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
>Subject: [TPIN] Bad Mornings/ Good Evenings
>Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:00:03 -0500
>
>With all this discussion of good/bad days I got thinking personally beyond
>that.
>
>With many early two church morning services I play I feel better at the
>second one.  However I don't think this has to do with my EARLY morning
>warm up for about a half hour before I get to the job. Maybe it is also the
>stress of new building, different congregation/ denomination.
>
>However if I have a afternoon/ evening wedding/ mass/ jazz job, I'm ready 
>to
>go with little effort!!!!!!
>
>I guess as I move through the day my body moves and warms up, my lips move,
>my lungs move. No need for a trumpet. Physiology
>
>Any hints for early morning playing?
>
>Howard Scudder
>Clarksville TN.
>
>
>
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