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Re: Best Use of Limited Practice Time

Author: D
Date: 2007-08-29 19:03

I would suggest scheduling in a small portion of time, maybe 5 minutes a day or one session a week to just play something you like for fun. You are not doing this for a living, and although you want to improve and are prepared to work for that, don't loose sight of what you love about playing music in the first place. I try and make sure that I am honest about practice times. I will be aware of if I am practicing or if I am noodling around. Both are fine, but pretending to yourself that you are practicing when you are actually just making a noise is counterproductive.
Perhaps as you are on a tight daily schedule with bratletts around, you may feel that you are getting nowhere at times. You might find it helpful to draw up a set of things you want to achieve, stepping stones on the way to those and then break down that into smaller bits. At least you can see where you are headed, things where you might need input from others and things you have achieved already. For the longest time I had a mental block about C major. Could play most other scales, just not that one. It was definitely on the list of stepping stones and it felt so good once it was moved off the list of 'things I really need to work on right now' and down to 'think about it on the bus occasionally but not play it everyday'.

Post Edited (2007-08-29 19:03)

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