I Tried Beethoven's Daily Routine: Here's What Happened
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The total opposite of complete deafness. You either surpass the stars and go beyond, or get insane... Wait, both are the same on a scale of relevance. He did had a very singular life, all of his actions were calculated and well thought.
Good vid, thanks. I hope you find your own style, bcuz you ain't him, but you also are him.
Pressfield...show up and do the work...nice Mary!
awesome video! why so serious though? (:
Congrats Mary, as you have learned the routine of genius. I am up @ 6am, prepare a cup of tea, and get my fingers on the strings before the first sip. I find that consistency and moderation in both caffeine and food intake creates a much more stable and reliable mind. I don't drink. The key is excercise, and as you are young yet I would consider a rather vigorous routine. Blood flow=brain power=creativity. Good luck and well done!
BEST THUMBNAIL EVER!!!!LOL!
I tried Hunter S. Thompson’s. I died of a cocaine overdose four weeks ago.
There's nothing worse than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
We miss you 😭come back
That sucks bro.
now my habit of Ouija board has come in handy
Man, I hate when that happens.
your voice would be amazing to read audiobooks tbh :)
If anyone wants to hire me to read audiobooks - they're more than welcome haha
@@MarySpender id write a book just so you could narrate it
@@MarySpender If I wasn't a broke student I totally would :')
Mary Spender , you should apply to those publishing companies - google it for a 2nd income.
I agree - voiceover work is lucrative. Just approach an acting agent, those are the ones who look after that line of work.
Imagine having such a good ear you don't even need it
many artists are trying out Van Gogh's daily routine: wake up in a daze, drink in a haze, isolate from society for days, appreciate nature from a gaze, paint and paint and paint and be amazed...at how you can forget to eat or drink, or love, or hate, or feel anything other than the inter-connectivity of you, your art, and the world it exists in.......but i've been doing that since high skool.
this comment is worth acknowledgement
A lot of -aze
*Haze*
Isolate you say? Not by choice. Van Gogh had the idea to set up a community in the south of France. Only Gauguin was interested. Also you have to start writing at least 2 letters a day to yo brother or sister. LoL Advanced Level: Don't sleep for 2 days so you are able to imitate the druggy scizo mentalstate of van Gogh. For extra bonuspoints you can eat paint. Bye.
Your life is amazing. Sadly I don't have that kind of talent in anything 😔
Having no background music was surprisingly refreshing
Exactly hah, man.
That voice fill my head just right.
I opened this video expecting to close it soon. Ended up watching the whole thing
Refreshing, yes; I have often given up on other people's vids because of background music.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of background music
Hemmingway's daily routine was also helpful for me: he didn't start drinking until noon. So, that's when I get up.
You also need to learn to fire a shotgun using your big toe...
@@shsummers How to Shoot a Shotgun in One Easy Step. It's a short book. Kurt Cobain was a big fan.
AGREED!!
...if you're younger, and have a taste for it, a nice glass of wine with breakfast...or,y'know,something semi-sweet to follow...lol...i'm serious...
Hilarious until you've lived it.
Beethoven also had far less distractions in his daily life to interfere with his creative process. No internet, no email, no TV, no radio, no iPhone, no texts, no Tweets, no Facebook, no ProTools or Logic----- nothing but total focus on the work at hand. He was a supremely hard worker. "Genius is 90% perspiration, 10% inspiration."
I think if he had modern tools, he would have simply recorded himself improvise and then just sent the recording to his editor who would have had to write everything down on paper.
@@InXLsisDeo he was the writer not the performer
“Need to forgive yourself” and not feeling “guilty” are my mind killers. Still working on such a seemingly easy goal.
In what way are they mind killers? Maybe for unproductive people, but if you work your ass off it really saves your life.
Well, people can still correct their mistakes while forgiving themselves , so I don't see a conflict in that, in fact, not forgiving yourself over sth could just be as unproductive if it makes you not want to work.
same here. Don't think I can ever master it.
My daily routine in quarantine:
1. Wake
2. Guitar
3. Sleep
I can tell this is true because musicians don't have time/money to eat
@@schunando 😁 I feast on chords.
Same
1.Wake
2.Bass
3.Slap
I can't play between 10pm and 9am cause my upstairs neighbor so it seems like I am always waiting for 9am OR it is approaching 10pm lol.
Mary Spender: getting to bed early helped me to be productive
*looks at clock*
12:00AM
shit...
@Cherian Philip If I sleep at midnight I'm going to be up before seven. Early, imo. In my job.
I know that feeling! Got to be on the road at 0630 to be at work around 7 but despite being in my 30's I shouldn't be allowed to pick my own bed time!
I hear that
Pfff... I woke up 10pm. That's two hours earlier!!
Beethoven never actually studied with Mozart. He was supposed to but Mozart died.
Yep, so he ended up studying with Haydn briefly... he wasn't too hip to Haydn's teachings.
Wrong. Mozart gave Beethoven a lesson in Vienna and was astounded; rushed out and told his wife Stansi how talented he was. Saw it on an Mozart documentary.
@@steveconn Can you provide the name of the documentary? Most sources I have come across indicate that Beethoven did not receive lessons from Mozart.
@@GUIM1797 type classicfm dot com, did Beethoven meet Mozart. It's explained there.
@@steveconn Check Solomon's biography of Beethoven. He never met Mozart.
On my backpacking trip through Germany and Austria in 2004, I walked through the Vienna woods, knowing that Beethoven once walked ( and composed music ) there, being a big fan of classical music.
I have visited most of the Harry Potter filming locations, but visiting composing locations is great as well! ^^
@@3.k You should try decomposing venues.
:D
@@FryingPan76
Lost places. Also nice! 😃
...he literally looks like a different person in almost every painting.
Comp Lex into his older years he got more depressed and upset with himself change comes with depression and anger
that's cause he was deaf
Those painters need to step up their game.
You can be danm well sure he WAS a different person in almost every painting
I would like to think it's mostly due to it being different painters
The perennial problem with being your own boss is that you are also your own employee....
Can't imagine the HR meetings....
LOL EXCELLENT
Agreed. Most people that become self employed find out very quickly that they are horrible bosses and even worse employees.
I can't get my employee to do anything. Right now he's commenting on UA-cam videos when he should be painting the ceiling. :)
@@iqi616 Youre married too?
Excerpt from 2020 Distopian novel:
"Here in England, we are still allowed to exercise outside, and I promise I'm practising social distancing during the infrequent times I am near someone else."
It does kinda read like a sentence from The Handmaid's Tale.
This is too real.
Lol I thought the same thing too! Damn England you crazy
In a decent place in American Midwest--we have a county sheriff who in WRITING was brave enough to announce he wasn't going along with enforcing any of the idiocy coming down from state capital and we live as "hobbits happy and free" still here entirely ENTIRELY and breathe freely and unimpeded at all times an NO illnesses from whatever evil source from which they supposely recently emanate-- with the only inconvenience some stores whose corporate masters have caved into the idiocy of this farce--so we shop for a few things farther away in places where the owners/operators don't live in foolish fear--and with the internet for the rest to be delivered--are completely ignoring this mass insanity--if you live someplace where the oppression is present --God Bless you to endure it well.
UA-cam censor lines showing up immediately to block out historical TRUTHs.
Your voice is so great and I can learn English too ! I came here for 3 reasons 1.) Get some musical Knowledge 2.) Learn English 3.) Your videos production is very good and it is very relaxing to watch your videos.
Wait what?! I thought I was going to see something... nothing happened. The idea was fantastic! The execution of it however... very sad. Perhaps you really did all this. I cannot say. That's also the point. You didn't document a damned thing! You said "I'm going to do this." You filmed about 57 seconds of clips of you doing "it." then you gave a speech about how it felt to do it. For all I know this is a scam. You never did it & you simply recanted what a person WOULD have done HAD they done it. I could easily do this myself given a bike camera & some pics of [insert celebrity here.] The point of this type of exercise is to SHOW the audience your journey, the ups, downs, & the mental struggles you went through. Where was the video at 3am going... "Wow I can't adjust to this sleep?" Where was the video at 8am going "I need more coffee?" Where was the video at noon going "AHAH!!! I have an idea whist on your walk or whatever? This concept is great... the execution however is an epic fail. For all anyone knows you never did it. You may claim of course that we shouldn't have to (nor you should) prove your trustworthiness to us. However, in these types of cases... there can be no other way. The entire point of this exercise & for the people watching it is to SEE what it's like... if you rob us of that... you've well.... robbed us.
Your English is very good!
You have great English
Because he was deaf they told him he’d never become a composer but did he listen ?
Lol
His deafness didn't happen until later in his life and in fact he never became totally deaf...it is said that on his death bed that a clap of thunder woke him and he passed away moments later...history or fiction???...IDK:)
Toooo fuuuuny
@@billybadfinger597 get the joke please
@@billybadfinger597 it's always fun when someone explains why jokes aren't factually accurate to try and show off being clever.
Can't wait to see the "I Tried Keith Richards' Daily Routine: Here's What Happened" video
OMG😱
They’d be dead
@@kaiser7695 I was thinking the same, whoever tried it didn't live to tell about it!
😂🤣😁🤣😂😁
or Lemmy Kilmister 😆
What a sympathetic homage to this musical giant. Mind his string quartets. They are still the yardstick of chamber music.
I try modeling my days around Keith Richards daily routine.
😂
Wakeup, smoke half a pack. Bourbon. Macawber. 0500h bed. Repeat. Sometimes that asshole with the big mouth comes over and sings. Repeat.
Works for me.
Johnny Piston I don't smoke cigarettes or drink booze though. Hopefully weed and Weed derivatives are acceptable substitutes!
So do you still have teeth?
Mary, I love that you're more than just a guitar player. It seems you're expanding your knowledge by seeking creative ways to share what you're learning. I'm enjoying following your journey.
I appreciate your four step process of observing Beethoven, investigating his life, applying his regime and then presenting your personal results. I feel that in less then 11 minutes you have bypassed mountains of fluff and nonsense and you pinpointed some of the foundational benefits of having a friendly schedule that helps you have a great day not a tyrannical schedule that deflates you if you fail to fully accomplish it.
This is so cool! Great idea Mary. Love it.
Next: Hunter S. Thompson's daily routine
HAH. Already been doing it my whole life (...joking)
Maybe you can ask Emmy Hucker for tips: ua-cam.com/video/T_JYXBI7O6Y/v-deo.html ;)
I ve followed his routine religiously for long time
You need a lot of stamina for Hunter's appetite, I have been an enthusiastic 'hedonist' for many years and no way could i sustain his regimen!
Mary Spender it would explain a lot Mary
I, too, used to be a night owl. Then I happenstanced upon waking up one morning about 30 min before the dawn and I witnessed the most beautiful sunrise over a cup of coffee on my balcony. Over time, that became my schedule: Awaken about 30 min. before sunrise and go to bed 8 hours before my wake up time. It works well, enabling many times to start work as early as 4 a.m. and be finished by noon, making the rest of the daylight hours mine to enjoy. Now that I freelance, my work hours are far less predictable, but the schedule still applies to waking/sleeping. I love my sunrises. It's now 4:20 a.m. and the sky is just starting to get some colour. It's going to be a lovely Monday. 😃
Thanks! Really thoughtful!!! Excellent analysis, content, analytical skills, and delivery. Thanks again
Brilliant. Thank you for both testing this and giving us a great summary.
You should do the same thing but with Erik Satie's schedule. That won't end up well...
What do you mean by that? I've done my daily routine for more than a century and I'm still alive.
Once again, I've thoroughly enjoy your ruminations, Mary. There is some truth to "The unexamined life is not worth living," and self-reflection is a trait I've enjoyed watching you practice from time to time. Never a late-night person or party-goer myself, I've always been an "early to bed, early to rise" type, and am very much a morning person, finding that, by far, the most productive part of the day, at least as an adult. I hope you can continue your new habits, at least to some degree.
Thanks for sharing Mary - I've been working on improving my daily routine so I was inspired by this - Cheers!
this is such a fantastic video!! so well done and so well written.
I was really hoping you'd wear that Beethoven outfit through the whole thing, lol, looks really good ;) but seriously, what a cool vid. That springtime countryside scenery is gorgeous too.
she did look perfect in that outfit. she actually kind of looks like him. maybe it`s the chin...
This video has a truly epic thumbnail! (and the video isn't bad either of course..)
Wait what?! I thought I was going to see something... nothing happened. The idea was fantastic! The execution of it however... very sad. Perhaps you really did all this. I cannot say. That's also the point. You didn't document a damned thing! You said "I'm going to do this." You filmed about 57 seconds of clips of you doing "it." then you gave a speech about how it felt to do it. For all I know this is a scam. You never did it & you simply recanted what a person WOULD have done HAD they done it. I could easily do this myself given a bike camera & some pics of [insert celebrity here.] The point of this type of exercise is to SHOW the audience your journey, the ups, downs, & the mental struggles you went through. Where was the video at 3am going... "Wow I can't adjust to this sleep?" Where was the video at 8am going "I need more coffee?" Where was the video at noon going "AHAH!!! I have an idea whist on your walk or whatever? This concept is great... the execution however is an epic fail. For all anyone knows you never did it. You may claim of course that we shouldn't have to (nor you should) prove your trustworthiness to us. However, in these types of cases... there can be no other way. The entire point of this exercise & for the people watching it is to SEE what it's like... if you rob us of that... you've well.... robbed us.
@@ModernDayRenaissanceMan Before you embark on what you believe is a glorious UA-cam Career, you need to work on your skills when it comes to commenting on UA-cam, both in not replying to the comment of a stranger and also in feeling entitled to a certain predictable format for a video whenever you click on it....
Ngl I was looking for this comment. Not remotely interested in this content but the thumbnail was so good I had to leave a view and a like.
😂
@@sebastianelytron8450 Haha!
You are amazing! Thank you for this! Hope you are safe and feeling well. Cheers!
Love this! So helpful and inspiring
For me “The War of Art” was a game changer. I still fall for that cunning and beguiling ‘resistance’ but now I recognize it faster and can adjust as needed. Thanks for your videos, Mary! Keep creating.... :-)
A woman whom I was proud to know, became the National Track and Field Champion of Canada, running the 220m. She made the Olympic Team, but unfortunately was disqualified due to her age of 15 yrs. She was taking pianon lessons at the time, and had aspirations of attending McGill University in Canada. The stress of track had begun to deteriorate her hearing...the pounding of the running. The needed operation was obtained, and botched.
Her private school, run by Catholic French nuns, had burned down. She hadnt finished 10th grade...She approached McGill pleading for entrance. Since she was already a National Celebrity, the board conceded, with stipulations: A written test, a receital, a board interview.
She passed all 3, and was admitted, her hearing failing...to McGill Conservatory of Music. Another operation to correct the first was again, botched.
My MOTHER, now 16...had lost 90% of her hearing in one ear, and 60% in the other, corrected by double hearing aids, a new thing on the market in 1948.
In 1951, Mom graduated McGill at 18 years old with a Bachelors in music, married 3 years later, and had my brother... Shortly thereafter she divorced her alcoholic husband, suviving a car crash which broke both arms and legs, 4 ribs, and anskull fracture, and hospitalized her for 3 months...at 24, met my father- fell in love, got married, had a 2nd kid...me!
With 2 kids to raise, In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, Civil rights, and womens rights movements... mom set out to obtain her Masters degree in musicology. she was the only one in her class that graduated out of 42 students. A fact never in the history of the University had this happened, and it was Front Page News!
Shortly thereafter, she tried out for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and became one of 3 piano soloists...returned to University..and 2 years later, obtained her PhD. in music, while simultaneously raising 2 kids, cooking awesome dinners, and being the best mom I could ever want!
Again, she was deaf. Dont lose sight of that (pun intended!)
She left the BSO after 2 years. the requirement to go on a world tour was non-negotiable, as and she had two children to raise. Her private practice, was maintained for the next 32 years... teaching up to 45 students a week. Driving to their homes in blizzards... or throughout the week at home.
Two of her students went on to Julliard. One of which went on to play with the New York Philharmonic.
....And thus, my mom has left this legacy for me to receit to you. Thank you, Mom... Beethoven aint got NOTHIN on you! Duhn,duhn,duhn, duhhhhhhh... ;)
Quite a story.
Thank you for sharing, I really mean it.
Wow. Thanks for sharing, I aspire to be as resilient and disciplined as your mom. And this is truly inspiring.
@@katherineparadis-chateaune8004 THANK YOU! I cried all the way through writing it...very emotional for me. Glad you appreciated it!
Wait you were proud to “know her” and by that you mean you were “birthed by her”. Very confused by your choice of words.
Lovely, well presented and inspiring!
This is a sweet video -- so neat. I loved all the History and reflection you provided. Very helpful when modifying an creative day! Love this!!
I've just returned to guitar after ditching it in my teens. I just wanted to say that you, and others like you, are a genuine inspiration to people like me who look at the guitar and think "how can I ever play well?", and then I see videos like yours and it encourages me to play, to practice and to strive to be better. So I just wanted to say thank you.
This actually made me realize a lot of wrong things I'm doing on my daily life.
Thank you for putting out your thoughts, they really help.
Don't you count your coffee beans?
Mary you are so very fun to watch. Thank you for your study and thank you for sharing with us.
YES! The War of Art is brilliant! Great video!
Beethoven's a pretty good model to follow; talent, dedication, resilience, inspiration and a bit stubborn, though his social skills left a little to be desired...
Definitely a lot of resilience...
I heard his house was messier than a junkyard though.
At least he went to the pub from time to time. Imagine being that kind of a crazy introverted genuis. It would be hard to make frienes just on personality alone.
He was known to be a very funny, social and joyful person. Just when his deafness got stronger and stronger he became more and more of a loner.
@@CaptainBohnenbrot i mean he wasn't the kindest teacher either
That was pretty interesting really, I like the part about consistent energy levels and limiting decision making. Currently unemployed and working hard to develop positive routines and take a deeper dive into my musical practice so this was just perfect for this moment. Thanks!
What a great idea for a video and you executed it wonderfully. I am inspired. Thank you.
Loved this chat: informative , educational, fascinating, refreshing, valuable and much appreciating more of such a great prodigy and mind.
Thanks, Mary! You're awesome. This was really interesting
Thanks so much Charles!
Beethoven: Wakes up at 5:00 am
Me: Goes to sleep at 5:00 am
Edit: Wow I forgot I commented this thank you so much for the likes!
Blue Mob Me reading this at 5 am 👁👄👁
Sad
Its called quarentines
hey, atleast you go to sleep
@@doctorscalling9479 I can think of a lot sadder things than going to sleep at 5:00 am. He may achieve more than the both of us in week, Be careful about judging others. just a thought, not being mean. peace-
Thank you for this. Eloquent, informative and inspiring. All the best.
I love this video - very happy to have come across it. I affirm the practice, having worked this way for years. Thanks for posting!
The War of Art was one of my textbooks my first semester of college.
10/10 for the thumbnail (and the content)! Just sub'd :)
thank you, this is great. Good on you for taking on the challenge and doing it.
Thanks for that. Informative and practical!
"Nothing but process" - absolutely! I'm sick of hearing people claim they have no process for creating ideas as if that meant their ideas would be different from each other. Having a process means you understand how YOU get ideas and you do the most important thing - you work at it. Like Hugh Grant said in Music and Lyrics - "Inspiration is for amateurs!"
I also wear the same clothes every day to my day job - all black - for the same reason: I get up and don't have to decide what to wear. It's hanging there waiting for me, and always goes together!
Mary, what a magnificent model to emulate. I have had some musician friends over the years, but they always practiced the use of getting high before they wrote their music. I never heard anything that they wrote or was ever published or played. I like your system better. My only wish is that I could still play the guitar, but my hands are not cooperating with that wish.
Thank you for sharing and teaching your talent. Felix
This is an awesome video. Thank you for sharing. Hopefully 2021 will be a more productive year for all of us! Love love love your music!
Very interesting and well presented mary!
This was a really cool and interesting video Mary. Has made me realise that i should really make a concerted effort to stick to a schedule and work on keeping myself sane 😂
Just a small note: Beethoven didn't actually study with Mozart in any meaningful sense. Mozart was pressured into meeting a young Beethoven as a favor to an Elector, and other than the fact that they met for a very short period we don't know much about their meeting. Which is really, really strange, but the sad fact is that most of their meeting is lost to history. John Suchet notes that Mozart probably wasn't interested in meeting with a random young prodigy because he had his own worries at the time - failing health, death of his father, couldn't provide for his children, etc.
nickdryad The Schnapps is the reason no one knows much about the meeting... They got shi*taced and it was like the German prequel to the Hangover...
Thank you for posting this! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Mary your voice is so calming to listen to. Sounds like a weirdly specific compliment but thank you for keep publishing high quality creative videos even among this pandemic.
Well the thumbnail is epic so that's a good start :D
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOU! for this video! I am passionate about this man, he is my music hero! All he did during this turmoil times, he’s an absolute hero, I actually spend my day in a similar way, read countless biographies on him, studied his piano sonatas, wow this video got me in the heart🌞watching it again now! Blessings!
All the best to you Mary! Thank you.
Thank you so much for this vid. I really needed this!
I've heard that us musician brained night owls tend to have the most creative flow within the first few hours after waking with more analytical cognition higher later in the day. I also suspect the long walks were an attempt to rest the mind getting out of its usual context for those Archemedian "Eureka" moments. I tend to find a lot of musical ideas come to me when I'm driving.
This happens to me, but a daily walk of at least 30 minutes is good for your body and soul / mind! Recommended.
His late quartets reach far beyond the conventions of his time. It's thought his deafness contributed to said late String Quartets. Bartok mentioned these quartets as an influence.
Well done, Mary Spender. Fabulous.
I thoroughly enjoy your creative presentation, music and erudite discussions. Thank you.
As an early riser the best thing is having a guilt free 40 winks powernap during the day. A game changer.
Who else was disappointed when she didn't actually dress up as Beethoven for the whole video?
(Awesome video Mary. :D )
EXCELLENT Video! You are a treasure Mary Spender. Love your voice, love your songs and love your guitar playing. All the best to you.
That was a really cool video. Your speaking voice is so soothing.
“There is nothing but process.” Wisdom
Professor Theodore Albrecht is translating and editing Beethoven's conversation books,which seem to suggest that he wasn't completely deaf,and retained a small amount of hearing in his left ear.
Might be interesting to read.
This is incredibly encouraging and inspiring. Going to try to put some of these principles into practice myself. Thanks Mary!
Thoroughly enjoyed this. Very motivating
You should have done Satie's routine.
waking with a start for no particular reason at 3:17am every Tuesday? nah
I love the story when they opened Satie’s rooms when he died, to find a very dusty piano, and musical sketches tucked into coat and pants pockets
But, this excerpt from his routine still gets me:
I sleep with only one eye closed, very profoundly. My bed is round with a hole in it for my head to go through. Every hour a servant takes my temperature and gives me another.
Eat for 4 minutes
@@kareraisu7327 and only white things (some fish) lol
People should do my daily routine indeed. Focus on white things.
I love everything about this video! The content, the cinematography, the pacing, the story telling, so good! I have a tech question, specifically what how are you micing the portrait shots? An overhead mic?
use Lav, cheaper and better results
Wait what?! I thought I was going to see something... nothing happened. The idea was fantastic! The execution of it however... very sad. Perhaps you really did all this. I cannot say. That's also the point. You didn't document a damned thing! You said "I'm going to do this." You filmed about 57 seconds of clips of you doing "it." then you gave a speech about how it felt to do it. For all I know this is a scam. You never did it & you simply recanted what a person WOULD have done HAD they done it. I could easily do this myself given a bike camera & some pics of [insert celebrity here.] The point of this type of exercise is to SHOW the audience your journey, the ups, downs, & the mental struggles you went through. Where was the video at 3am going... "Wow I can't adjust to this sleep?" Where was the video at 8am going "I need more coffee?" Where was the video at noon going "AHAH!!! I have an idea whist on your walk or whatever? This concept is great... the execution however is an epic fail. For all anyone knows you never did it. You may claim of course that we shouldn't have to (nor you should) prove your trustworthiness to us. However, in these types of cases... there can be no other way. The entire point of this exercise & for the people watching it is to SEE what it's like... if you rob us of that... you've well.... robbed us.
Super cool! Thank you for sharing
I have just found your videos, wow, I love the honesty and the thoughts you share. Thank you
Beethoven wasn’t a prodigy Ike Mozart, but he was gifted as a pianist and composer. He changed music, and freed it for everyone to appreciate.
He wasn't a child prodigy like Mozart, because he wasn't Mozart. He was a child prodigy of his own unique kind. He became assistant court (in Bonn) organist to his teacher Christian Gotlob Neffe at the age of 12-13. Beethoven's supreme genius was first properly schooled by Neefe (Beethoven's father was no Leopold Mozart) in hie early/mid teens. Neither Mozart nor Beethoven were attained the brilliance as a teenage composer that the later Mendelssohn did, but genius at their level is far, far more than extreme talent.
That outfit in the thumbnail makes Mary look like Hermione Granger.
This is the first video I've ever seen of you, and my goodness what a beautiful voice to listen to.
You are just what I needed. Thank you for the inspiration.
Stephen King has a memoir "On Writing" and on the subject of his routine, he's pretty concise. Up in the morning at about 7 AM (I suspect this is more a reflection on the fact he had children that needed to go to school back in the day and he was a former school teacher than anything else.) Ironclad feature: he is at his desk from 9 AM to 11 AM 7 days a week, sick or well. He has lunch and takes an hour-long walk. Famously he was hit by a car during one of these walks, but I don't believe he gave up the habit. Outside of this routine, the day is wide open for whatever.
He has a point about his daily routine easing his mind into the creative trance. He thinks 5000 to 10000 words a day, prose or drivel, is a sustainable output in this amount of time. I suspect he can type 60 to 120 words a minute at that rate.
Larry McMurtry has a similar routine. Waking up at 6 AM and going straight to work until he has five pages finished. These days the man has revised that up to ten pages. Typically he can get that done by 10 AM. Being the man's true passion is antique books, he spends the balance of the day running the antique book stores he owns. It must work because the man wrote three memoirs rather than confine himself to a single volume.
Still what sticks out to me is conditioning the mind to fall into the creative trance by simply locking the activity into certain hours of the day. Rain or shine, sick or well, at home or abroad. Beethoven appears to tacitly agree. The genius that he was, the habits are part of that genius. If you'll agree, he's not even that eccentric.
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Very much enjoyed this video. Loved the Daily Routines book, must read it again.!
Great concepts Mary. AND... a brilliant presentation. Salute. Carl & Leann.
I have a theory about the old "Early to bed, early to rise..." Candles and coffee were expensive. I'm a night owl, and used to play music on the road, sometimes not arriving home until the sun was rising. It's presently 1:27am. If I get to bed soon, it will be an early evening. : ) The best thing about the wee hours is no interruptions. Sleep well.
A full life must include suffering and pain. The dark depths of life can be challanging however perspective and the climb back and eventual advancement beyond the start create wonder and inspiration for one's self and other's. The rise will inevitably create a position of greater understanding and motivation.
Beautifully spoken and articulated thoughts and observation, Mary.
Very cool video. I found this enlightening and inspirational! Thank you for taking such care and thought putting this together.
I'm so glad people with a big reach are saying these things!
We ought to shift to a state of "creative stillness"
This is what our society needs to understand...
Hustle, griding, and powering through are things of the past and not sustainable.
I think JS Bach would disagree with you - seeing as he wrote over 1000 pieces of music. No novel ever got written by an author waiting for inspiration. They just write every day even if they delete it the next morning. Mozart worked incessantly. Stephen King writes 1500 words every day except Thanksgiving and Xmas day - hence the 50-odd novels. People, like water, like to take the easiest route and then justify it. I can't think of anything artistically 'great' that has been achieved by that mindset... Paul McCartney and John Lennon would meet every morning and not stop until they had a fully-formed song or two.. The list is endless...
@@Frazer777 I don't think that working hard has anything to do with what I'm talking about.
I write music every day, but I ALSO understand the importance of maintaining my creative juice flowing. There is no such thing as "waiting for inspiration" I find that BS as well.
It is about CONSCIOUSLY maintaining your creativity flowing.
It is about the union of hard work, passion, and flow.
@@Frazer777...Hmmm...I think both states are necessary. You absolutely need to consistently put in the work, but you also need to find that creative stillness by paying attention to the beauty around you.
I'm a Guitarist 40 years and after the 80's early 90's Party ended I found myself stuck . I began to do Session work which eventually paid better then my earlier playing gigs . I found that listening to Forms of music from other Countries and Cultures was a wealth of resource when I was in a dry spell . I eventually started doing this regularly even if I really disliked what I was hearing . I have never felt blocked since ... Just a suggestion my not work for everyone ? It also Improved my Guitar playing in ways I never thought possible ...
Sounds like a good idea! Thanks!
That's really cool. Thanks for sharing. I'm really inspired by Native American music
Wholeheartedly agree with this. I was brought up on lounge, classical and jazz. I was a jazz freak, love jazz-rock, big bands. Got tired of the stale local jazz scene, did other things for a living for quite a few years. Started listening to other styles of music during that, went through an indie phase, industrial/metal, Chinese and Japanese traditional music, enka, J-pop, Middle Eastern music, European brass bands, Apalachian folk, Irish fiddle music, Konnokol, R&B and Motown, just totally obsessed and into each and all. The musical journey is ongoing, who knows what riches it will bring! But having a routine helps immensely as it gives me time each day for listening and writing.
I LOVED how educational this video was. Made me think about my routine and how I could adjust it for creativity or what ever it be. Thank you for posting this!
Thanks for posting!