Are you still "woodshedding" if ...

[Songdog]

... you're not actually in a shed? (At least there's some wood!)

Regular rehearsal got canceled tonight, so me, my Alembic, and Mr. Metronome spent a lovely summer evening gettin' our groove on.

Does anyone else have a favorite outdoor practice place?

[BeenDown139]

Ok I'll jump on.  Out in the backyard woodshedding with the pretty bass on a hot summer evening in the mile high.  Which is what I was if I recall correctly.

[David Houck]

My woodshed isn't really an ideal place for practice.  But thanks for the reminder that I need to get busy with the chain saw before cold weather gets here.

[edwardofhuncote]

No. Haven't played since July now, no reason to practice anything.


The only thing I am actively working at is trying to listen, and let my mind play the things my hands can't. See... there's a short-circuit between the brain and the fingers. Literally, the electrical current can't get from A to B and give me that feedback. So while I'm waiting for the repair shop to fix that... I'm thinking about the music I hear. Trying to be very conscious of it, and what I'd be doing in that moment.

[bigredbass]

I've always lived with high humidity, heat, and big mosquitoes.  I don't play outdoors unless forced at gunpoint.

[growlypants]

I've always lived with high humidity, heat, and big mosquitoes.  I don't play outdoors unless forced at gunpoint.

Now, where's that "Like" button?

[cozmik_cowboy]

I've always lived with high humidity, heat, and big mosquitoes.  I don't play outdoors unless forced at gunpoint.

As a lifelong Midwesterner & summer-hater, I understand fully.
But the worst outdoor gig I ever worked in Fort Collins, CO in early March; the trumpet & 'bone players were (quite literally) freezing to their mouth-pieces.

Peter

[hammer]

I've been thinking of doing some nature-based woodshedding myself recently but not necessarily to get outdoors or focus on my technique.  We have some neighbors who recently installed outdoor speakers and don't seem to understand that in spite of 5.5 acre lots, when you turn up the bass and play hip-hop really loud all day until 12:00 midnight, there is a possibility that you might be annoying some of your neighbors. Polite reminders seem to lead to their turning down the volume for a week or two but then it gradually creeps back up again (and this is from someone with pretty significant hearing loss). I've been thinking of taking my rig outside or at the least opening the windows as wide as possible at midnight and just playing the same basic scales over and over and over again. Unfortunately, in an effort to make a point with one set of neighbors, I'd probably be upsetting others who live around me so I'm hoping the cold weather here in Minnesota (at least too cold for outdoor gatherings) comes soon. 

[Songdog]

If the music is loud enough for you to hear clearly, you're implicitly invited to the party, right?