When learning to play a musical instrument, what is your practice routine?!
Question: What is your practice routine when trying to learn a musical instrument? What was it when you were a novice, intermediate or expert? Did it change much? Do you focus on one piece of music at a time or several?
My instrument is the harmonica.
Answers: What is your practice routine when trying to learn a musical instrument? What was it when you were a novice, intermediate or expert? Did it change much? Do you focus on one piece of music at a time or several?
My instrument is the harmonica.
I'm playing the guitar now for over 4 years. The first trick is to be consistent and strict.
Consistent meaning: playing on a regular basis (preferably every day at least a little bit). Practice makes perfect ;-).
Strict meaning: don't be too happy too quick and don't take the easy way out.
As another Yahoo-user stated, starting really slow with a song or lick and gradually building up speed helps a lot too.
Another thing that helps, is to do some "warming-up" exercises. It could be anything, from a song that you know really well to some simple scales. This is particularly helpful when you're learning an instrument that requires physical strenght (as in a guitar, drum, bass guitar, violin, etc...)
I think all of these things help regardless of being a novice, intermediate or expert. I believe that you never really master an instrument, you can get to a certain degree of mastery but you always keep on learning. You can never really say at a point that you can't develop any further, there is always room for improvement.
Hope this helps (my first answer btw :-) )
wel i play piano and trumpet
even though i dont practice im not that bad
xD
it just comes to me
I play the guitar more than the keyboard these days.
I use a chordal progression that covers about 40 of the basic chords and I run the scales in at least 4 places on the fretboard just to limber up my fingers before I play... it doesn't take more than a couple of minutes and it helps me focus on playing.
With a new instrument ... 10 minutes every day is much better than ... say ... two hours once a week.
If you are learning something new - play it slowly and correctly instead of trying to play it up to speed. It is easier to speed up something right, than to correct something wrong that you already learned.
If you have trouble learning something, practice it until you have played it correctly MORe times than incorrectly. We have a tendency to practice a thing, and when it is wrong, we keep at it until it is right, but stop after the first time we played it correctly. The muscles are more likely to remember the 29 times played wrong than they 1 time correct.
When I was learning to play the guitar I would practice 2 to 3 hours a day. I would work on the basics first. Notes and scales then move on to songs. I would work on one song at a time till I got it right.