Why You Should Keep Your Practice Space Tidy
Photo credit: rileyroxx
Does this look familiar?
This is an expansion on one of the points that I talked about it in
How To Practise Every Day - 13 Useful Tips.
Keep it clean
Question: Why should you shower every day? Because you care about yourself enough not to go out smelling really bad. You owe it to yourself and the rest of humanity to maintain good personal hygeine.
If you stopped showering it wouldn't be long before people started noticing and then began avoiding you. They wouldn't have a very high opinion of you. "Yeah that Alex is a nice guy. He smells a bit though..."
In the same way, your practice space is a direct extension of you, your mind and your identity as a drummer. A messy practice space broadcasts "I don't really care about what I'm doing."
I'm sure you'd much rather spend your time in a nice, tidy space rather than be around a huge mess. But there's more...
Traffic Jams will slow down your progress
We've all been in traffic jams before. They are not nice places to be. You're
Print This Post