Do you practice with background noise?

[danktat]

Am I the only one here who practices with the TV on in the background more often than I probably should.

In all fairness, the Phillies AND the Sixers were on.....I had to peek up at it every once in a while

 

[CandidPicker]

I used to jam to sports games, but need to hear my iTunes over my computer speakers. Most noise I'll tolerate while jamming to iTunes now is myself chomping on a stick of gum.

 

[jxe]

used to play with a ‘keyboardist’ if that counts.

 

[dmatthews]

Guilty as charged your honor!

 

[CandidPicker]

used to play with a ‘keyboardist’ if that counts.

My mind wanders too far, and but prithee what shapes and forms ensue...perhaps it best to find the way back from my journey before my ship disappears over the horizon to its doom...

 

[Black Plaid]

I have a looper, it's pretty much just noise.

 

[danktat]

I told myself the TV is in the music room just in case I had some sort of video I needed to play along with. But my computer is in there. I could play it through that. The reality is that I don't know why I have it on as often as I do. It's never loud enough to be heard over whatever I'm practicing or playing anyway. But somehow I feel like I needed in there. LOL

 

[CandidPicker]

I practice with Quick Burn Keto and Position Time & Effort Into It posts in the background...

 

[veinbuster]

I did in my work apartment - TV on low volume while I played. I would try to play along to music when it showed up.

At home I play with no outside noise unless someone happens to be listening to something in another room of the house, or smashing dishes in the kitchen.

 

[merciful-evans]

I often 'practice' in front of the TV. Sometimes I'll play along with any music that on. Sometimes not.

 

[László]

TV noise drives me nuts, whether I’m playing or not. The only TV I watch is Michigan football, and I turn the sound off. No need to hear the commentators tell me what I just saw with my actual, functioning eyeballs.

“But you do music for tv commercials for a living, Les.”

“Yes. Because I’m in hell.”

 

[danktat]

TV noise drives me nuts, whether I’m playing or not. The only TV I watch is Michigan football, and I turn the sound off. No need to hear the commentators tell me what I just saw with my actual, functioning eyeballs.

“But you do music for tv commercials for a living, Les.”

“Yes. Because I’m in hell.”

LOL....I am just the opposite. I can't even sleep without background noise. So I turn the TV on low volume. My ol' lady tries to turn it off once in a while and within 10 minutes or so of it going off, I wake up. It has been that way since I was a kid. I don't do absolute silence. Maybe I just need enough noise to drown out whatever noise is in my head.....lol

 

[László]

LOL....I am just the opposite. I can't even sleep without background noise. So I turn the TV on low volume. My ol' lady tries to turn it off once in a while and within 10 minutes or so of it going off, I wake up. It has been that way since I was a kid. I don't do absolute silence. Maybe I just need enough noise to drown out whatever noise is in my head.....lol

My wife grew up in a “TV on all the time” household. Doesn’t bother her. I’m probably abnormal. She does have the kindness to close the door of the room she watches TV in, but since I can still hear it (seems to me she listens at deafening volume) for many years I’ve simply gone into the studio, shut the door, and either worked on music, or read books.

I only knew one other person who felt the way I do about TV noise, a very talented musician and physician, but unfortunately he passed away, and now I’m the only person left on Earth who feels the way I do, apparently.

 

[Volteau]

If it's not something that requires 100% of my attention, I'll even practice while playing some 4x games that don't require both hands (crazy what that does to your legato). But if it's some crazy pattern training, then I can't no. Also, if it's a song I just wrote, and I really want to embed it in my system, then I need complete silence/focus.

 

[bodia]

“Yes. Because I’m in hell.”

I thought Detroit was making a comeback?

 

[walrus]

My wife grew up in a “TV on all the time” household. Doesn’t bother her. I’m probably abnormal. She does have the kindness to close the door of the room she watches TV in, but since I can still hear it (seems to me she listens at deafening volume) for many years I’ve simply gone into the studio, shut the door, and either worked on music, or read books.

I only knew one other person who felt the way I do about TV noise, a very talented musician and physician, but unfortunately he passed away, and now I’m the only person left on Earth who feels the way I do, apparently.

I am not exactly the same but similar. Can't stand TV noise in the background when I'm trying to read or do work (grading papers, preparing a class, etc.). If it's on I'm sitting there watching it and nothing else. No guitar playing while it's on, that's for sure.

And I only have one TV in the whole house - THAT is definitely abnormal!

 

[Black Plaid]

My wife grew up in a “TV on all the time” household. Doesn’t bother her. I’m probably abnormal. She does have the kindness to close the door of the room she watches TV in, but since I can still hear it (seems to me she listens at deafening volume) for many years I’ve simply gone into the studio, shut the door, and either worked on music, or read books.

I only knew one other person who felt the way I do about TV noise, a very talented musician and physician, but unfortunately he passed away, and now I’m the only person left on Earth who feels the way I do, apparently.

You aren't alone. We have a TV, but it's only on when we are watching a movie, I can't stand TV as background noise. Waiting rooms with TVs are the worst.

 

[bodia]

Upstairs, in the "music room", no. In the basement, yes. The TV is usually on during the day, as background noise, while I am working. When I play down there, it's 50/50 that I,leave the TV on.

 

[László]

I thought Detroit was making a comeback?

Yeah, it is, and it's REALLY incredible. Truly, the most amazing city turnaround I've ever seen.

 

[László]

Waiting rooms with TVs are the worst.

True that. If they had any shame, they'd hand out earphones like on an airplane, so people can watch daytime TV and not disturb those of us who wish to retain something of our sanity.