Practicing

[Markelberry]

I love playing early in the morning the best,the mandolin always sounds really beautiful tone wise. It seems like everything works better for me then,you know before the day makes me feel like everything is a rush to be on time? Any thoughts?

[dunbarhamlin]

When I'm supposed to be doing something else - its the perfect displacement activity because the guilt's offset by the warm fuzzies http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Apart from that before bed and, if I didn't play through too much sleep time the night before, 1st am.

Steve

[bjc]

I like playing early in the morning as well. It's real quiet and less chance of interuptions. I got into that habit in college while playing classical guitar. There's also something that is more intimate playing solo stuff in the morning.
When the weather starts turning warm, I love to sit on the front porch or go over to the beach and play while the sun rises.

[red7flag]

Early morning also. Also, any time where there is just nothing going on and my feeling can just flow into the mando. This is the time that I write songs too. Bill Monroe once said he never wrote a song he just pulled them out of the air (some might argue that he took great liberty as far as that concept goes, but let's not go there). The best tunes that I write written, I just find in the Mando, at those special times.
Tony

[Lane Pryce]

Ditto on the early am. Just works better. Nuthin better than a hot cuppa-java and a good mandolin to start the day. Lp

[dunbarhamlin]

http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/coffee.gif Trouble is I like a hot POT of java - and then I'm only good for a febrile tremelo http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/coffee.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[Chip Booth]

When no one is home to bother http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[fatt-dad]

Springtime on the front porch, mid-afternoon, cigar and fake beer - now that's a winning combination!

f-d

[archjjg]

fake beer?...oh, say it isn't so !!

[mandoJeremy]

Definitely late for me. My mind doesn't feel at its artistic best until the late hours. I started practicing last night at 11:00 and finished up at 3:30 this morning. I am way too ill and grumpy to even look at my mandolin in the morning after I wake up much less play it.

[Michael H Geimer]

Crack of Dawn. Especially on Saturday mornings when I don't have to go anywhere.

[woodwiz]

Any time
All the time
Whenever I can,
and even when I can't.

[JGWoods]

I pick for a few minutes in the morning but my hands are too stiff for me to be any good until I've played for at least a half hour. Anyway, it helps my stiff joints to wake up, a mando tune, a fiddle tune, a banjo tune, and off to work I go.

[fatt-dad]

fake beer?...oh, say it isn't so !!
Old Milwalkee NA - All the flavor of Old Milwalkee without the buzz, ahhhhhh. . . . . .

f-d

[stevem]

When my wife wants me to do something like take out the trash.
"Sorry, honey. I'm making the world a better place with music..."

[sean808080]

wow..it never really occured to me to play in the a.m. i can't do much other than drink coffee and check my news sites. then again, i saw an interview with bill monroe and he stressed how he especially liked to play in the morning.

[bjc]

Everyone is a little different. When I'm up, I'm up...there's maybe a two minute time frame where I'm a little fuzzy (unless the night before was "fuzzy")...My wife however, will be up for an hour or so before she can even attempt to complete a task. But it's the reverse at night, I just want to get to bed and she'll stay up until the wee hours...

[250sc]

I get up an hour early for work and play while drinking coffee and listening to NPR.

I try to get a couple of hours in after work too.

[James P]

Just the opposite here. #I like to play from around nine until midnight, but the boss gets all sleepy-eyed around nine. #So I try to wedge in practice between dinner and her bedtime. #I've tried going the picking quietly route, but I just can't seem to contain my enthusiasm.

Lately I'm thinking a Mandobird might be in the cards. #Wish I could play one locally.

[Greg H.]

I'm definitely a late night person--after the kids are in bed. My alarm goes off at 5:30 in the morning as it is and the thought of setting it any earlier for practice time just doesn't seem feasible. Of course if I don't have cooking duties then any time is good.

[bjc]

People at work HATE me because I'm up at 4:30 every morning...I play for an hour or so, head to the gym, arrive at work in time to play for a half an hour...drinking diet sodas the whole time (save the gym). So by the time everyone arrives, I'm four hours into my day and ready to rock. Beware of the caffienated mandolinist!!!

[daisygirl]

I'm about useless for almost anything in the morning. I do a lot better in the evening or late at night than earlier in the day.

Days when I have a shorter shift at work I like to get a couple of hours in after work, but a few days a week I have a 12-hour shift and usually only have time for a half hour to an hour tops.

[patmando]

Check out that morning jam, I hear my mandolin better and I remember better, it's almost better than http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif??. Never mind. The thing about morning playing is not having to be at work till lunch or afternoon.

[Roydw3]

I play for about 30 minutes at lunch and then I do my serious practice at night when everyone else goes to bed. It allows me to keep working on a single piece over and over and over again without driving people crazy. I do my workouts in the morning so I couldn't dare to practice the mandolin...my fingers and hands would be shaking...my legs would be cramping...and my attitude toward delicate strings may not be so positive.

Denny

[Coy Wylie]

10 pm - 1 am give or take. I've always been a nightowl. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/blues.gif

[troika]

Late-night after hearing some really great music, mid-morning after a really good C.R.A.P (Coffee; Repeated And Pure).