Tips for Making Your Practice Time Really Count!

• Practice a little EVERY day; this is far more beneficial that one or two long practice sessions a week.

 

• Have a certain time each day that is set aside specifically for your practice. It will then become part of your daily routine.

 

• Split your daily practice into even smaller time chunks i.e. technical work in the morning and pieces in the afternoon/evening.

 

• Learn each piece a phrase at a time. Practice each phrase SLOWLY until you have it and then go to the next phrase.

 

• Starting at the beginning of the piece and playing through to the end each time you practice is not an effective use of your time! You are merely practicing mistakes!

 

• Don’t practice mistakes or you will become very good at playing them!

 

• Sometimes start in the middle of your piece and work to the end.

 

• Regularly record yourself and listen carefully to it.

 

• Practice the hard bits – not just the bits you like.

 

• Listen to your pieces being played by the great players.

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