HOW MUCH PRACTICE DO YOU NEED FOR JAZZ? INTERVIEW WITH CHARLIE AND PAUL DESMOND

If you practice like Charlie Parker for 10 hours a day, 6 days a week you'll have completed 12,000 hours of practice in about 4 years. Do it for much longer than this and you are an idiot. There is no need. It is OTT. We revere Charlie Parker for his fluency, speed and technique. On a personal note, he is too much for me (but you'll have different views, I know, says he, duckling head)

Oscar Petersen practised for an average of 5 hours a day. He said, "You need to do enough practice to get your technique to the point where you can express your ideas. It depends how heavy those ideas are."
Later in life he halved his practice routine. Sensible chap.

Most professionals I know do practice, and practice much more than amateurs. Quiet Paul Desmond seems to be in awe of Charlie Parker in this interview.

John

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