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Author: Matt74
Date: 2016-07-18 00:33
One of the recent posts asked for some kind of roadmap for practicing and progressing. I'm not the most organized sort, but I have never had any such thing. I'm lucky if I can get myself to focus on one thing at a time. Do you guys have (or did you have) progressive goals to accomplish in your practicing?
I know a lot of people spend so much time on this or that each day or week, and we all have had to work on a certain piece for lessons or performance. That's not what I'm talking about. Goals would be something like "I will be able to play all 12 major scales with tongued 16ths at 120 bpm in one year." It seems like having some goals would be helpful, but I'm not sure it works that way. I mean, you only learn stuff as fast as you learn it, and things aren't strictly progressive. You might be able to play 16ths really poorly in one year, but spend the rest of your life playing them slowly and never get it right. It might also take you 1 week to get "C" down and a month to do "C#".
Just wondering...
- Matthew Simington
Post Edited (2016-07-18 00:36)
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Author: SarahC
Date: 2016-07-18 00:40
i am huge on goal setting!
My students are given a book to learn (say.. Suzuki Piano school volume 2... or whatever matches the instrument they are learning), and i tell the parents to give them $5 per every page memorised perfectly. Then they practise more focussedly on improving. I assign a set amount of scales for each book they work through too.
I am trying to put together a book along the lines of the suzuki book that i could use this way if i ever taught clarinet.
Another goal I give myself is i set ambitious exam goals! For instance.. i bought the clarinet in january... (but it had to go back to the shop so many times, i didn't really start practising till march...) and set the goal i wanted to do grade 8 in june. ... and i practised to get there.
I was going to set the goal to do the performance and teaching diplomsa at the end of the year.. but then realised the cost.. and decided to hold off... but that means that i no longer practise as focussedly, and am focussing on the teaching diploma only. i am playing diploma pieces each practise... but it is almost just more fun playing than focussed on improvement playing...
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Author: kdk
Date: 2016-07-18 00:45
I think the goals part is OK, and most of us have had them, either self-set, or at an earlier time in our development, set by our teachers, throughout our lives. But I'd forget the time-frame part. You really can't impose a schedule on progress - there are too many roadblocks that can come up along the way of learning to slow the process.
Karl
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Author: nellsonic
Date: 2016-07-18 01:03
I've been toying with idea of making goals a more explicit part of the yearly cycle in my teaching studio. Early summer seems like a good time to do this with most auditions and evaluations well in the future and more free time for many of my students. I think goals can be useful tools to get the most out of your time and to gain some insight, but they can also become an additional burden that sucks the fun out of an activity that should be fulfilling just in the doing of it and in the incremental progress that occurs at it's own rate. It's a balancing act. I'll be following this thread with interest.
Anders
Post Edited (2016-07-18 01:07)
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