Posted by The Sock on February 13, 2003 at 12:16:11:
In Reply to: Re: What to do when playing hurts... posted by dp on February 11, 2003 at 11:58:27:
I would be wary of taking days off with no playing whatsoever... unless your lips are truly damaged in some way. As many a professional player has said, for every day you don't play, you lose a week of practising. You can still take it easy though, put on some lip vitamens of some sort, many suggestions have been posted, then after a few hours go play some low octave etude books, nice slow relaxing movements that don't have any nasty range problems, lots of slurs. It should go easy, and you will still keep your lips in shape. Just play that for like 30 minutes, if you still feel good, play some more, if not, then just stop, at least you still practised.