This is the first in a series of videos designed to help you help your student get the most out of their music lessons!
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Video Transcript
It’s the new year and every musician’s resolution is ‘This Year I’m Going To Practice More.’ While we often think about this in terms of total time, what is really more important is that we practice more often.
Getting better at a musical instrument, especially percussion, has a lot to do with building muscle memory, and as a former teacher of mine was fond of saying “You can’t cram a motor skill.”
The more days per week you can get your student to practice the better. While the amount of time in those practice sessions will vary from student to student I often say I would rather have a student practice 10 minutes 5 times over the week than an hour just before their lesson.
The easiest way to keep up with all the practice is just to give it a place in the schedule. Make it part of doing homework, right after school, or in between dinner and bedtime. Just like going to the gym for that New Years Resolution, it’s a tough sell at first, but eventually you start to crave it.
So the two things you should take from this are:
- So the two things you should take from this are
- (1) Don’t just have your student practice more, have them practice more often.
- (2) accomplish that by putting it on the schedule and making practice a habit.
If you have any questions about how much your student should be practicing please send me a message or of course we can talk about it at lessons.
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