Staying in the game: The best practices, attitudes, metacognitive strategies, and intrinsic motivations of aging musicians
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When to act your age

2/24/2019

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When to act your age? When things get serious. 
  1.  Illness, yours or a loved one. No time for evading responsibilities. Man and women up as the case may be and take care of business. 
  2. Money. Age has some advantages, I say make the most of yours. As Jim Rohn said, " count and measure carefully".
  3. Staying employable. Being replaced by a cheaper, more skilled young person would really suck. They will dump you when the spread sheet says time for you to go. To paraphrase Brian Tracy, "your earning potential is your greatest resource after your health". I say keep your up to date and valuable. 
  4. The future, preparing for the shit storm we will all surely face. Clear your debts, save some money, make contingencies for what is to come.
  5. Your current health. Working out and staying fit may not help us live longer, but it will make the time left to us more comfortable and mobile. And, help keep us playing.
Best, 

​David Story  

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Accountability partner follow-up

2/20/2019

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Jamming in Aberdeen Scotland. The home of the haggis spring roll. No kidding. BTW, they are yummy.
  • I'm in a month now with my partner. I missed last weeks number. I will do better this week. I'm now super conscious of practice time, scheduling and content. Wow it works. My friends can hear the difference in the extra 3 hours of practice I'm now doing. 
  • I have students sending me recordings three times a week of their practice sessions. Wow, it works for them too. As Terry Clarke says, "it's blindingly obvious" I guess we all need to remember that sometimes. 
  • Today two of my practice buddies will show up and we'll play for 2 hours, no break, jazz standards. More on practice buddies soon. 
  • Over the past 2 weeks I've heard 2 groups perform the kind of gigs I used to do: resturants and dinner dances. It's been more than a decade since my last gig. The musicians all played essentially the same repertoire I played for over 30 years. Yikes, no new tunes. Do I miss it? Nope. Playing jazz drums with my friends for fun is way more satisfying. 

best, 

​David Story




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How much music practice can a 60 year old body endure?

2/16/2019

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Good question

I'm trying to follow Brad Stulberg's program. BTW, I can't recommend his work highly enough.  

I'm working out three times a week, practice times are blocked out. Accountability partner and I are in touch each week. I'm upping the piano time, goal is to match drum time with piano time. Twenty hours on the bench and throne. I'm up to 15 hours and still intact. I'll stay in touch on progress. 

It's 7 AM time to hit the practice studio for an hour of drumming. 

Cheers, 

David

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Dancing to a big band in 2019

2/3/2019

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That was interesting, I think. Last night my wife and I went dancing with a crowd of 20-30 somethings at a private club we belong to. The older crowd stayed home. A good time was had by all. After a lesson on the "Hollywood Lindy Hop" the band swung into action. The dance floor was packed. They set good tempi. They knew what they were doing.  The drummer keep it real simple. We had fun dancing. 

Before and after the swing set the band played function music for general dancing. I counted one new tune by Taylor Swift in their repertoire. The rest was the same repertoire I played for 35 years and I retired from that line of work over a decade ago. Most of the musicians were in my cohort. Lot's of grey. Tunes from the 60's, 70's, a few 80's, no 90's, two standards for slow dancing.   

I felt I was in a time warp and stuck in 1985. That was no fun. I like 2019. 

best, 

David
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    David Story: Professional pianist, drummer, composer, and educator. Well into his 5th enthusiastic musical decade, David works with adults pursuing musical dreams in the autumn of life, while he maintains an active presence in the Toronto arts scene.

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