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Originally Posted by Bill3
Good work! This is great.
I am thinking, though, of listening systematically. Listening in addition to playing.
If I understood you correctly, you had a very positive emotional reaction to listening backstage tonight. Perhaps you could build on this at home. Some advantages might be:
--you would enjoy it
--it would give you emotional support
--you might develop professionally (e.g. listen to violin works, string quartets?, other stuff that isn't your usual gig). Or maybe there are works that you have always wished you had time to listen to or to study better.
--it occupies time
--it could discourage unwelcome others from interrupting/bothering you
If this idea makes sense at all or appeals to you at all, perhaps you could get the music on your ipod or whatever before you even get home.
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HA, I am actually addicted to iTunes. There are so many great pieces of music I haven't really gotten into yet. The problem is that I can't do this constantly. I can physically only play 2-3 hours every day or I risk seriously damaging myself. I should get into string quartet music, but I haven't been able to really connect with it thus far. I can listen to music for much longer periods of time than I can play it, but it is very intellectually taxing. I've been playing video games a lot recently so I'm going to keep doing that.
I've done this before and I can do this again. It just gets harder and harder every time I have to go back there. I've never done anything nearly so drastic as this in anticipation of returning there.