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pavlovsdog
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Link Posted on Jul 02 2014 05:50 PM

I've been having a lot of trouble with time management. I'm wondering how you all divide the time between playing/practicing and sitting down to put a record on and being inspired.

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Noel
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Link Posted on Jul 02 2014 05:59 PM

pavlovsdog wrote:

I've been having a lot of trouble with time management. I'm wondering how you all divide the time between playing/practicing and sitting down to put a record on and being inspired.

To get anything done I have to schedule it, and then stick to the schedule.

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Link Posted on Jul 02 2014 06:30 PM

Erratic! since I retired I don't follow a real schedule. I may play 2-3 hours today and not at all tomorrow. I only get to really listen to music in my car--the Mrs. doesn't seem to like the stereo droning on and on. so, whenever I can I try to play a little and not irritate anyone. the schedule thing is what I need to do, compromise on the time a little. Paranoid

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Link Posted on Jul 02 2014 06:48 PM

I seldom just "listen" much anymore. Most of my time is spent working on original material or fine tuning set-lists.

Ocassionally I'll spend some dedicated time listening for pleasure / inspiration if I'm feeling a bit lazy; it's usually 1st Wave stuff or rather obscure 60s Garage B-sides. I've also been known to dive into other genres and I also write original material completely different than Surf / Instro.

Just not enough time to get it all done. None

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CrazyAces
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Link Posted on Jul 02 2014 09:58 PM

Listening wise - I'm fortunate to work at home, in a workshop so I often use this time to listen to music if things aren't too noisy or I'm not doing some work that requires my listening skills.
Practice, writing, playing, recording - I find or make time and the best motivation is that I remind myself how much I love music, what's it's done for me in my life and how I feel better doing music than almost anything else.
This does require discipline - especially with a home business that revolves around guitars, and discipline, for me, like a lot of musicians, is a difficult thing to master but once again.....my love for the instrument and music motivates my quest for better discipline.
As well as............
Staying away from stimulus that does not allow me to grow musically, such as the internet, TV, Small batch bourbons...........

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alphaking
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Link Posted on Jul 03 2014 10:34 AM

I signed up for a Spotify account and save surf albums offline on my phone. I can plug it up to the car stereo on the way to/from work and listen to them for my 30 min commute each way. I'll hear something new and want to play it when I get home and practice, and it works pretty well for me. That's about the only time I have to hear new music and keep my mind full of new things to try when I have 30min to an hour to play something after work. And at $9.99/mo, that's about the cost of one album on iTunes. They have a pretty good selection of full albums and compilations and when I get tired of an album, I delete it and find something new so I don't get bored with the same music over and over.

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Link Posted on Jul 03 2014 01:59 PM

+1 on music streaming services

I use Google Music, I signed up specifically for music discovery and it's very good for that. Squeeze it in on my way to and from work usually, and if I get a quiet weekend night I pop on the cans in the house and plug into youtube for a while.

The only downside to the music streaming is the questionable royalties topic, which absolutely punishes smaller bands. But money is the root of all evil and all that.

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