I'd once seen a coin performance that totally floored me. Today, thanks to you, I got reminded it was Homer Liwag's. Might be my first magic-related lecture I buy in a while, thanks for the review :)
The table coin routines look very nice but not something you are going to perform very often. As a professional magician how do split up your practise time? How much time do you spend practising new things you know you'll never perform at a gig?
Most pros have a set working list that's been worked over time, I rarely add new things as they take alot of work to get up to par, I learn some magic for fun, even if I'll never do it. But usually I just work on things over time at less high profile gigs. Or to parents at kids parties.
For a PROFESSIONAL magician, I think you should hone in on your repertoire and strive to keep working on it to keep it crisp and fresh. On the other hand, depending on your proficiency with your existing performing repertoire, I'd think 20 to 30% of practice time should be devoted to new/different material, IF you know that eventually at least one effect could make the cut inside your professional repertoire (substituting an older one). Doing that will make that effect go from practice time to rehearsal time (which would then split again the % in half), so you can put a new effect in rotation again. If you're talking literally about an effect you KNOW you'll never perform at a gig, NOR in social environment, so a 'useless' effect (nobody will ever experience magic from it) you do for the sake of practicing yourself, then that should go into 'free time' and not 'professional practice time' ;)
Homer's Class is what all online lectures should aspire to.
I'd once seen a coin performance that totally floored me. Today, thanks to you, I got reminded it was Homer Liwag's. Might be my first magic-related lecture I buy in a while, thanks for the review :)
The table coin routines look very nice but not something you are going to perform very often. As a professional magician how do split up your practise time? How much time do you spend practising new things you know you'll never perform at a gig?
Most pros have a set working list that's been worked over time, I rarely add new things as they take alot of work to get up to par, I learn some magic for fun, even if I'll never do it. But usually I just work on things over time at less high profile gigs. Or to parents at kids parties.
For a PROFESSIONAL magician, I think you should hone in on your repertoire and strive to keep working on it to keep it crisp and fresh. On the other hand, depending on your proficiency with your existing performing repertoire, I'd think 20 to 30% of practice time should be devoted to new/different material, IF you know that eventually at least one effect could make the cut inside your professional repertoire (substituting an older one). Doing that will make that effect go from practice time to rehearsal time (which would then split again the % in half), so you can put a new effect in rotation again.
If you're talking literally about an effect you KNOW you'll never perform at a gig, NOR in social environment, so a 'useless' effect (nobody will ever experience magic from it) you do for the sake of practicing yourself, then that should go into 'free time' and not 'professional practice time' ;)