"Music Practice Methods
and
Music Practice Techniques"
That Accelerate
Your Playing Abilities
For music practice methods, the path is laid out
as we have discussed with music learning methods. To truly apply a
music practice technique, it will be up to you to take the time needed
to accomplish the work.
You either take action or not to practice music. That will be the
ultimate determination as to your success and whether the music
practice technique is effective. Our pages and workbooks have provided
the outline and the path, you must apply the energy.
We know if you have the drive, we are preaching to the choir. OK, pun
intended. And believe us, we hope this is the case. You are the master
of your journey and quest for music.
How Do You Make Your Practice Great?
 So
that
brings us to crucial part of practicing.
How do we practice
music without getting bogged down in the rote method of learning?
We
build it into the material and the music practice methods using our music learning methods.
You take it
one bite at a time. You don’t want to learn it all at once. You take a
little bit, let it sink in, and then build on the success of the past.
You can’t jump in and expect to get it all at once.
Short Focused Practice Segments
Therefore
learning can and should be developed to allow you to practice 5 minutes
or 30 minutes or an hour at a time. Sometimes completing one
item
may be 10 minutes of practice. Sometimes it may be 2 minutes. But the
idea is that it is just one concentrated attention and focused energy.
It
is much better to take 5 minutes of focused time to master a single
concept than it is to play an hour and simply repeat something in a
rote fashion and make no progress.
So what are you focusing on?
Just one thing at a time. Lets say you quickly learn the basic rhythm
of 4/4 time. The next step will be focusing on just accenting the first
beat of the rhythm. The step after that is focusing on accenting the
first and third beat. And then the second and forth beats, etc.
By taking these simple steps of concentrated effort you begin your
mastery of the theory and your abilities.
What
Happens in an Extended Session
To practice music in an extended session you may end up covering five
different musical elements (rhythm, chords, scales, or a combined
effort of rhythm on scales) of 5 to 8 minutes each and accomplish more
ground than if you spent all your time on one thing for the same half
hour of unfocused effort.
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