Chris exclaimed, "... 5 hours is too much. 4 is probably the maximum a horn player should do, and even then it likely is too much."
But there are always exceptions. I'm told that when he was preparing for his first audition (with New Orleans Symphony, I believe), Louis Stout practiced 8 hours/day for 3 months to get ready (he won the audition). Sometimes events bunch up and I find that I have to practice extra hours just to prepare everything in time. Normally, I try to split my playing time into three sessions throughout the day, but interferences sometimes make that schedule not possible; at other times I find it necessary to practice as much as 6 hours in a stretch just to prepare myself for my commitments, but never on the same day as a concert. Loren Mayhew \@() [EMAIL PROTECTED] (520) 403-6897 _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
