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Re: For a college music major (music ed.), How much daily practice?

Author: ww.player
Date: 2008-07-15 16:34

To complete Ed's thoughts, what are your musical goals? In other words, how good do you want or need to be?

Many music ed majors only put in an hour a day. Most performance majors practice at least 2 hours a day. So, if you want to play like a clarinet player and not a band director, I would recommend at least 2 hours a day.

If you want a shot at playing for a living, you have to be at least as good as the competition. This means 4 to 6 hours a day (not to mention constantly listening to recordings when not practicing).

To be a world class performer, you either need incredible talent and lots of work or lots of talent with an incredible amount of work. Any way you slice it, it pretty much takes a fanatical commitment over a long period of time to reach that level.

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