How do I make pages for new question lessons?
A student asked me during a recent office hours session, “How to play with others?”
How much time should I devote to learning a new tune and how much to reviewing what I already know?
John from South Charleston Ohio asked, “I try to practice an hour a day. How much of that time should I devote to learning a new tune and how much to reviewing what I already know? So much to do and so little time! Sometimes I get overwhelmed with everything.”
- An hour a day is good!
- There’s no one formula that works for everyone.
- I have a whole series of different practice routines.
- Decide what your focus is…
- Learning a new technique
- Learning a new tune
- Review
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- Review tunes connected with the same scale
- Have a review practice session once a week
- Have a whole week of review sessions after a year
- How to Practice Review Sets
- Renew With Review
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- Adding variation or improvisation
- Learning to read sheet music
- A good basic routine: 20/20/20
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- 20 minutes for technique
- 20 minutes for review
- 20 minutes for a new tune
- Interleaving
- Rather than doing one thing for a big block of time, break it up and practice it a few times throughout a single session. For instance, if you’re learning and practicing vibrato, practice it for five minutes, then play a new tune, then play a scale, and then return to practicing vibrato.
Further learning and practice
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This micro-lesson is an excerpt from an office hours webinar I gave on June 17, 2020. View the entire live-stream with indexed questions here.
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