It’s easy to fall into the mindset that more hours = faster progress, but I think that can be a bit of a paradox. Like physical training, growth often happens during recovery.
Yesterday I mixed an event for 8 straight hours — line check, monitors, rehearsal, and show — and today I feel completely cooked. The ear fatigue is real. At that point, is it worth forcing a training session, or is it better to come back fresh?
Personally, I think that time spent isn't nearly as important a factor as intention. If you're cooked, your brain is gonna check out while your body moves on auto pilot. You can push to get work done but you're unlikely to meaningfully grow on days you force yourself to get through it.
Really depends on what you're trying to do. Have a deadline for a client and need to get work out the door? It's not ideal but a deadline's a deadline. Them's the brakes. Push. Have an itch in your brain that this song is never gonna get finished if you don't work on it every single day? Our brains have a tendency to go straight to panic when we're exhausted - if you want it to be your best, you have to put in your best effort. Rest.
2 workouts and 6 games isn't enough to know, really. You gotta get used to the games and the sounds first - just like any ranking system, it doesn't work until you've played enough to settle in.
Don't worry about sucking, the journey to improvement is the same for everyone, no matter where they start: one step at a time.
Ti ringrazio tantissimo, però ci sono tante cose da mettere a posto e ne sono consapevole. E’ la prima volta in assoluto che “divulgo” una mia composizione. Nonostante i miei 50 anni cerco sempre di migliorare e apprendere cose nuove, nuove lezioni che forse possono arrivare in modo più diretto da critiche costruttive. Ovviamente ti ringrazio ancora per l’incoraggiamento. Suono da quasi 40 anni, non sono mai stato un talento e non ho mai suonato dal vivo, ma la fiamma della passione non si è mai spenta. A presto!
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