[sandster]

With very little to occupy the hours of isolation, what better way to ramp up your practice sessions. Spend more time on long tones. Memorize tunes. Play ballads, (using C-concert Pno Bk) in your warm-up. If you transpose, play your Eb and Bb horns for this, (or buy the Eb and Bb versions). Go through some old technique books you've not read for a long time.
What can you ad to my list?

 

[Keshr]

Are you sick/been exposed or just on lockdown in your area?

 

[Keith Ridenhour]

Get on You tube and memorize 3 tunes a day you like. Could be pop tunes, jazz whatever. Then tomorrow revisit these tunes and learn 3 more K

 

[sandster]

Unofficial lockdown. Still healthy.

 

[Atratr]

I try to focus on practice but it is hard because i am really worried about what could or would happen. Worried about my family, my little brother has a cronic illness that makes him weak to fight the potencial damage that an infection would cause. Also cases are now on the rising curve of the graphic cause two days ago still we were in our jobs and usual daylifes. I am shocked, nervous but just trying to cold my mind and follow every instruction to avoid infection or infecting others, cause i can´t say if the virus is in my body. So maximum alert.
Going to the practice room, i focus a lot on sound, clean and precise technique, slow practice, melodies and language in different tonalities and rhythm mostly. I rumble a bit but try to follow the same things that worked yesterday.
Sometimes i leave something out and put in a different exercise, standard or technical exercise in order to keep it fresh and interesting.

 

[1saxman]

We're just mostly hanging out at home. I had a gig 3/28 but the band decided to cancel ourselves rather than putting ourselves in a room with 110 people - or, end up having a very small crowd. I have a gig with another group on 4/4 that they're still advertising so I guess its still on. Meanwhile, the governor is trying to ban any social gathering. Its going to be rough for a few weeks/months. Unfortunately for the practice idea, its time for spring yard work here and I'm digging in (pun) tomorrow - I have a long list of chores and projects.
Neither my wife nor I are sick but we're trying to not get that way. We still have things we have to do that involve getting out there with people so there's really no such thing as real isolation. Plus, in about two weeks the house will be crawling with workers doing some long-overdue remodeling. Now that really puts a kink in your 'self-isolation' plan.

 

[Keshr]

Unofficial lockdown. Still healthy.

Good to hear that you are well. We have a lot of closures here so I am thinking too about practicing if I have to stay home. For me though as a noob I have lots to work on. I have trouble with getting notes below C to speak easily on my alto (but I'm fine on the CMel), so that is probably what I will do exercises on. Do you have any trouble spots? Or maybe something you hear in your head but can't quite get? Those would be great to add to your list!

 

[Keshr]

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[toughtenor]

I can not really focus on practising right now. ( I did my last gig a week ago and stopped teaching today.) My wife is a nurse. Her hospital is getting ready for tens maybe hundreds of patients. She will be in the front line and will be asked to work a lot. All the time with limitations on protecting herself from the virus since there is a shortage of gear worldwide. So there is a chance she will cathch the virus. Numbers of cases are increasing rapridly now. Schools are closed and a lot of people work from home as much as possible. But still IMHO most people are not serious enough with social distancing. Now is the time to do that in order to slow down and flatten the curve. It's going to be hard times from a week from now when the outbreak will start to reach real serious numbers.

 

[Grumps]

Thankfully Music Medic is still open... at least for today. I picked up a horn that needed work, and although it plays, I've been doing a little bit at a time to get it in better working order. After needing to replace a broken spring, I replaced all the smaller pads up top that were leaking with new ones that I got with the replacement springs a week ago. Once that was done, the clarity of the horn really came through for me. So over the weekend I ordered a few more pads to address another problem spot before it gets bad and I'll be good to go.

 

[Keith Ridenhour]

I agree, we might all be thinking differently a couple of weeks from now. K

I can not really focus on practising right now. ( I did my last gig a week ago and stopped teaching today.) My wife is a nurse. Her hospital is getting ready for tens maybe hundreds of patients. She will be in the front line and will be asked to work a lot. All the time with limitations on protecting herself from the virus since there is a shortage of gear worldwide. So there is a chance she will cathch the virus. Numbers of cases are increasing rapridly now. Schools are closed and a lot of people work from home as much as possible. But still IMHO most people are not serious enough with social distancing. Now is the time to do that in order to slow down and flatten the curve. It's going to be hard times from a week from now when the outbreak will start to reach real serious numbers.

 

[Keshr]

Thankfully Music Medic is still open... at least for today.

I got an order in with MM for some pads today as well. The governor here added more mandatory closures, and some people in our office started working from home today. Welcome to the trenches, folks.

 

[whaler]

My gigs are cancelled for two weeks. At least they fed me at my gig last night at a nice French restaurant. Caesar salad, pate, halibut, nice Chardonnay, followed by bread pudding, cheeses and a port. I think dinner lasted as long as the two hour gig.
Today I spent practicing clarinet. I had my revelation, again, that the best way to approach improvising through the break for me is transposing a fourth as far as key signature. I guess that makes sense to some who think that way. Maybe I’ll just practice flute and clarinet for a few weeks just because.
I may start writing music again if I get really bored.
A few of us are working on a benefit for restaurant workers and fellow musicians who are losing money during this mess.

 

[Sacks Of Phones]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10157166024967406

 

[whaler]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10157166024967406

Love it!

 

[GaSax]

I could use the time off at the house to get some stuff done and to practice. But I have to work, they're not going to let me stay home unless I'm sick.

I got plenty of sick time and vacation time if I need it though.

 

[Saxie24]

My place of employment officially shut down yesterday; we came in today for a few hours to clean things up, but we're expected to be closed for the rest of the month. It's disappointing, but I understand why it had to be done. At least I have a few music-related projects to keep me occupied.

 

[dha]

I've been practicing piano, tenor and learning clarinet. Been away from the piano for awhile but playing my Bach and Handel pieces, it's coming back. I actually practice tenor sometimes from these classical books.
Also memorized the heads of Bird Feathers and A Felicidade, the Joe Henderson version. I live in the country, so it's like being self isolated all the time. The world is fighting a war against an invisible virus, and I hope and pray we win this fight.

 

[Heath Watts]

I can not really focus on practising right now. ( I did my last gig a week ago and stopped teaching today.) My wife is a nurse. Her hospital is getting ready for tens maybe hundreds of patients. She will be in the front line and will be asked to work a lot. All the time with limitations on protecting herself from the virus since there is a shortage of gear worldwide. So there is a chance she will cathch the virus. Numbers of cases are increasing rapridly now. Schools are closed and a lot of people work from home as much as possible. But still IMHO most people are not serious enough with social distancing. Now is the time to do that in order to slow down and flatten the curve. It's going to be hard times from a week from now when the outbreak will start to reach real serious numbers.

Being a nurse is always a heroic job, but being a nurse during a pandemic is beyond category. I hope that you and your wife stay safe, and please thank her for her service to humanity.

 

[sandster]

Good to hear that you are well. We have a lot of closures here so I am thinking too about practicing if I have to stay home. For me though as a noob I have lots to work on. I have trouble with getting notes below C to speak easily on my alto (but I'm fine on the CMel), so that is probably what I will do exercises on. Do you have any trouble spots? Or maybe something you hear in your head but can't quite get? Those would be great to add to your list!

Problem with low notes on alto but not on Cmel? Weird. Maybe the alto has some leaks?