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    Quote Originally Posted by guidoStow View Post
    I know one song. Who needs to learn more?
    ...and it's Wagon Wheel
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    There ain't but two tunes anyway. Wagon Wheel and that other one.
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    All playing is practicing. If you're gonna play, you are practicing.

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    I don't need to practice, I went to a jam this week.
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    I'm always practicing in my head. That should be enough.

    I just ask for more talent in the monitors please.
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    I don't need to practice. I am already as good as I am ever going to be.
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    I don't need to practice. I don't have a gig lined up.
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    Missing the point. Practice is an excuse to do something else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fergus Lester View Post
    Missing the point. Practice is an excuse to do something else.
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    I avoid practicing because I'm afraid the sound of all those pentatonics will end up in my playing.

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    At my age, what difference could it possibly make?


    At my age, I've got plenty of time to practice later.
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    I can't practice now, I am working on my character.


    I don't need to practice, I go to jams.


    I am not experienced enough to get a lot out of practice. I have a lot of basics to get under my belt first.


    I know what I am doing, I have a lot of experience. Practice wouldn't really do much for me.


    I get enough practice playing.


    They are all watching Netflix on the big screen, I don't want to disturb them.


    The house is quiet, I don't want them to hear me practicing.
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    I need a cigar and the dog needs walking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JeffD View Post
    I can't practice now, I am working on my character.
    Well played, sir.

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    My usual reason for avoiding practising:

    I LOVE this tune SOOO much!

    -oops another error, and there’s another,
    ok I’ll practise after the C part,
    I love these crooked tunes
    Ok really, I’ll practise it after another time all the way through... I wonder if I can get it up to 500 bpm?

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    Here is my main excuse. This is a real problem so maybe I will get some advice.

    I think about playing all day. Can't wait to get home and play after work!!! Get home, have time, have some energy...still do not practice.

    I don't practice every day because for some reason I am holding myself back.

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    My new perfect mandolin is in the shop for a month. My old imperfect mandolin will be sold when I get the new one back. Perhaps playing on such a different neck will set me back when I change over to the new one...
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    Quote Originally Posted by susank View Post
    Here is my main excuse. This is a real problem so maybe I will get some advice.

    I think about playing all day. Can't wait to get home and play after work!!! Get home, have time, have some energy...still do not practice.

    I don't practice every day because for some reason I am holding myself back.
    Get an instructor or someone, anyone, guitarist, mailman, whatever, who will arrive at your house for half an hour three days a week and who only gets paid if you work on a pre-agreed schedule.
    That is, you play a certain number of notes with a metronome VERY SLOWLY in say, 15 to 20 minutes, NO stopping. Deep breathing. Like mediation. Good luck.

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    Do you like the idea of playing the mandolin more than actually playing the mandolin?

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    Quote Originally Posted by atsunrise View Post
    Get an instructor or someone, anyone, guitarist, mailman, whatever, who will arrive at your house for half an hour three days a week and who only gets paid if you work on a pre-agreed schedule.
    That is, you play a certain number of notes with a metronome VERY SLOWLY in say, 15 to 20 minutes, NO stopping. Deep breathing. Like mediation. Good luck.

    That's a great idea! I do enjoy practicing once I get started. Being held accountable would might just be the incentive I need. I do need to relax as well. I tend to want to learn it all to fast instead of enjoying and letting each thing sink in. Oh, and how did you know I started taking shallow breaths? LOL I do catch myself doing that when I play. I try to hard instead of letting it flow, or something like that.
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    Funny you should say that because I asked myself the same thing! I am a beginner. I don't play guitar. I don't know anyone (personally) who plays. I think part of it is that I just sometimes feel overwhelmed by what to learn next. I'm following Mandolessons. He goes over things slowly enough and I watch the same video as many times as I need to. Honestly, I think it's the fear that I will try and fail.

    Wow, that is the most honest thing I've put out into the world in a long time!!

    I love the idea of playing the mandolin like a pro!

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    Fan: Maestro I’d give my life to play like that

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    Dragging out this old thread because I recently thought of another reason to avoid practicing:

    I with a little tweak I could get my action lower.
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    I'm already so good, I don't want to practice anymore. Because then I'll be too good to play with myself. (No, I don't mean it that way.)
    But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller

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    Another reason to stop practicing.
    Go to another country, stay in quarantine in a cabin in a wooded garden, spend most of your day pruning and loping tree branches and the rest of the day eating home cooking.
    And in the evenings you eat home cooking.

    And you didn’t bring a mandolin with you anyway; a decision made under the false premise that a ukulele tuned in fifths would be ‘just fine’.

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