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I just got an e-mail from my teacher - 9am lessons next semester. Haven't had those in 2 1/2 years! I am not a morning person.

it certainly will convert you to a morning person, which means also you have to sleep by midnight every night !

I don't usually go to bed before 1. It just means I won't get as much time to practice and warm up beforehand. Other than that, none of my classes start until 12:30 (keyboard improv ) or 2!

9 am! I laugh in your general direction! (monty python...but of course everyone knows that) I'm not a morning person but a manage to get up at 5:30 to practice then off to school!

Matt

Welcome to the real world!

If you had to work for a living - and one day you may have to, and it just may not be on your own terms - try telling your potentional boss/supervisor when you're interviewing for a job that you're not a "morning person" and that you'd prefer not to start work until noon and see where that gets you.

Perhaps you should be thankful that the email didn't say that your lesson would be at 8:00 a.m.!

Enjoy!

Regards,

:p That's exactly what my mom said. I DO have a job and pay bills, actually. It's a night job from 5 - 10:30.

I've dealt with it before, so I know it will be fine, but...yuck all the same!

During my undergraduate years, my earliest class were 10:40am, and still i could not wake up for that. I have my days where i am an insomniac and have to go through the days where 3-4 hrs of sleep, even less. But you might as well get use to getting up early, once you advance in your career i doubt the days will revolved around late hours.

Yeah. Last semester I managed to get through an 8am math class (I HATE math), so a 9am lesson will be ok (as long as I'm prepared for them!). It's also just inconvenient because after that, I don't have class until 2.

perhaps some instant black coffee?
at 13 you don't drink much coffee (I havent even had coffee yet...yuck!)

Matt

Coffee's ok, but I prefer tea. Oh, boy, did I drink a lot of tea on Tuesdays and Thursdays last semester to get through that math class!

me having tried neither woundn't know anything about either

Matt

As someone who has had to support his musical idealism with almost forty years of getting up early and going to work, I admit to a great deal of sympathy with Bruce's sentiments. Curiously, now that I am phasing myself out of the workforce and have more time for music, I find working at music in the morning and during the day very enjoyable, perhaps simply because it is a privilege long awaited and therefore more highly valued.

I am not entirely convinced that this "morning person", "night person" business is anything more than entrenched habit. My father started going to bed later and later until he went to bed at dawn and his cycle, over several years, did a full twenty-four hour loop back to normal.

Think of it like this: since you have so much time after your lesson (before your 2pm class) you can get to a piano and put all those new ideas into practice.

Besides - you're young and you can do it! Ahhhhhhh youth!!!!!

Yeah, I do like that part of it.

My lesson time next term is 6pm to 7.30

That's yucky, too.

I used to have one from 8:30 - 9:30pm.

I have gone through many such 24-hour cycles. Everybody would have, if they were freer. Perhaps we haven't, as a species, yet adapted to the 24-hour day of our planet of immigration. Evolution may be fast, when suitable mutations occur, but it has not been fast here.

Its not too bad - I have a lecture from 2-4 on that day so it gives me time to relax a bit before heading out to practise a little and then have my lesson. Certainly better than my 9.30am start.

You will love the faster way the brain learns in the mornings.

We primitively used to sleep in two "blocks". Instead of having your average 8 hours of sleep straight through the night, most of the very early generations slept half that amount, woke up, then continued the rest of the hours later. There is a good Scientific American Article on it (If you are in the U.S.) Issue was probably at least a month or two old.