Do you practice your piano playing every day?

[babura]

Hi Everyone,

Do you practice every day? If so, how long?

[littletune]

Yes of course!!  well sometimes it happens that I can't, but not very often... and usually I practice about 1 hour on my piano and then about 1 to 2 hours on my keyboard (because of the neighbours  ).

[fleetfingers]

Yes . . . usually 1-3 hours if I can spare the time.

[ted]

"Practice" is a curious word in that it implies the existence of something else which is "the real thing". For a performer, presumably a concert or a recording is "the real thing". However, for someone like me who never performs and spends 90% of his time at the piano in improvisation, "practice" ceases to have any functional meaning - except perhaps the five minutes of technique night and morning on my silent Virgil Practice Clavier.

I also doubt that it is possible to "practise" improvisation; one either does it or does not do it. I usually play the piano for two or three hours a day, not in one session though, and it couldn't correctly be called "practice".

[ongaku_oniko]

not necessarily. by improvising, you get better at, well, improvising.

So you're really practising towards a goal of... being better at improvising.

[invictious]

I try to practice everyday.

Even though I am in Hong Kong, where I have plenty of neighbours, I get my way around practicing piano.




(they think I am a lawyer)

[nataliethepianist]

Yes, of course! I practice for about 2 hours, but I just play for fun for a while!

- Natalie