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Offline kersplona

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How do you warm up?
on: November 23, 2012, 02:01:39 AM
How do you warm up?

Offline j_menz

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Re: How do you warm up?
Reply #1 on: November 23, 2012, 02:20:43 AM
By means of the miracle that is air conditioning.
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Offline thesixthsensemusic

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Re: How do you warm up?
Reply #2 on: November 23, 2012, 02:42:56 AM
By playing the first 2 Chopin Nocturnes of opus 9.

Offline patrickd

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Re: How do you warm up?
Reply #3 on: November 23, 2012, 03:06:09 AM
I occasionally warm up with a couple of the Liszt technical exercises along with some Rachmaninoff and scales. However I don't follow a clearly defined system, I just tend to mess around till I am ready to practice.

Offline ajspiano

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Re: How do you warm up?
Reply #4 on: November 23, 2012, 03:54:00 AM
By means of the miracle that is air conditioning.

I like to use the more traditional "woolly jumper" - because I care about planet earth and like to reduce my carbon footprint where ever I can.

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Re: How do you warm up?
Reply #5 on: November 23, 2012, 04:09:42 AM
I like to use the more traditional "woolly jumper" - because I care about planet earth and like to reduce my carbon footprint where ever I can.

Do you know the carbon footprint of your average sheep?

https://www.the9billion.com/2011/07/26/carbon-footprint-of-20-animal-products-lamb-is-highest-then-beef/#

I think I can run my aircon for about a year per jumper, which is probably not as often as you buy a new one.
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Re: How do you warm up?
Reply #6 on: November 23, 2012, 04:15:34 AM
If I'm kinda cold, I warm up with Bach.

If I'm REALLY cold, I warm up with some Rachmaninoff and Liszt.
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Offline ajspiano

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Re: How do you warm up?
Reply #7 on: November 23, 2012, 04:21:45 AM
Do you know the carbon footprint of your average sheep?

Actually, that consideration was the underlying point of my comment that made it humourous enough for me to bother saying it.

Offline j_menz

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Re: How do you warm up?
Reply #8 on: November 23, 2012, 04:32:35 AM
Actually, that consideration was the underlying point of my comment that made it humourous enough for me to bother saying it.

Haha. I keep forgetting you're not a complete idiot.
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Offline ajspiano

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Re: How do you warm up?
Reply #9 on: November 23, 2012, 04:38:23 AM
Not sure if I'm..

Haha. I keep forgetting you're not a complete idiot.

..feeling warm, fuzzy, and gratified.

or..
Haha. I keep forgetting you're not a complete idiot.

offended.

Offline j_menz

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Re: How do you warm up?
Reply #10 on: November 23, 2012, 04:47:23 AM
Not sure if I'm....feeling warm, fuzzy, and gratified. or..offended.

My habit is always to resolve any ambiguity in my own favour.
"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left" -- Oscar Levant
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