Music teacher (or websites like this are very important for everyone;-) attempts to create a better musician. But teachers can not make you a better musician, it can only tell you how you can improve you. The real improvement you have to do it yourself, in your own practice time.
Performances (individually or with a band) to give you the opportunity to show people your progress. You should enjoy it and do not burden you with thoughts about the technical details of the music. There is really no perfect time to learn, even if you go to every practice session, performance, etc.. Individual practice is essential if you want to become a better musician.
Your teacher should give you indicative Linen how often and how long you should practice. If you have no teacher or instructions from him are too vague here you will get some important tips. Do not fear your teachers for further suggestions, etc. to ask.
It is important to practice, not just to practice well. You can practice every day and still make only slow progress. The most progress with the least effort will you have if you keep to the following content.
The ideal individual exercise goals
- Sit down practice times
- Warms to you
- Works to you
- Since the loose
- Reviewed you
Sit down goals
Your practice should have long-term, medium term and short-term goals.
What are long-term goals for a musician? Are those special pieces you should be able to play? Starting up a band?
Answer this question will help you to find out what you should work. And it helps you the medium and short-term goals out. If you have a teacher that they set goals for you, based on your strengths and weaknesses.
Your long-term goals will help the middle time-out targets. What you need to make the first voice to sing in the choir or to start a band? Will you have to do to improve your singing, your sound, your mood or your finger guitar technique? What books would be helpful? If it is difficult to find out, ask your music teacher or musician respects her for advice
Your Middle-objectives plus your performances, your lessons are the goals for your own lesson.You must get prepared for performances, rehearsals and concerts, and your teacher gives you material to practice so you'll be a better musician. Concentrate on what you want to accomplish today and what will help you then get to where you going.
Sit practice times
Your teacher should tell you how often and how long you should exercise. If not, you stick to two rules:
- must be practiced often more important than long practice.
- And the better you will, the longer it takes to get you to improve.
To practice every day deal. If you fail times leave one day the not bad and can even be good to relax your muscles and you look forward to practicing again. But do you know if you let fail one day, it starts after the last day on which she practiced. If you fail often let one days will make it more difficult to progress because you can lose the progress made quickly. If you have little time to make your easy warm-up exercises. This is better than the day to cancel completely.
Young players and beginners do not need long hours of practice to make progress. A 10-year-old player e.g. often needs to practice only 15 or 20 minutes. More would much. not good for his muscles or joints. Professional musicians practice however, often several hours a day. On higher levels you need a private teacher of tells you how long you should exercise.
Heat up
To play an instrument or sing is a physical activity and warm up for the musician as important as for the athletes. Does heavy things if you do not warmed since otherwise you do not play with your best options and that would be a waste of time and energy. Not to mention it is also frustrating. Warm-up exercises may sound like a waste of time, but you can turn it into a very productive minutes. If your teacher has given you specific exercises, working with them. If not, finds its own, or ask someone to practice using the scales. Scales are too boring? Attempts the difficult times;-) But warm-ups should be easy.
If you play difficult pieces, it may be even more difficult when you play best in sound and quality want. Begin with simple clothes. Sure, it only scales, arpeggios, etc. But the best art / sound / ... play you will improve much.
Thus, the warm-ups of interesting and you can pay later, the more difficult pieces.
Work with it
If you warmed up since, takes out the difficult stuff and work with it. A few tips for quick improvise:
- Does it not wrong! Plays no wrong notes, let out no notes or playing the right rhythm. This will wear only the wrong one. If it is too complicated, it does slow down, so that you can find all the notes or the rhythm.
- Does not just going on. Let the simple parts from, take you from the difficult, slow them and exercise until you can play it at the right pace.
- If there is anything that you can not play, makes it part of your warm-up program. Finding a simple exercise that will help you to practice this part and is exercising every day, until you can. If necessary. it slows down until you can correct it.
If it difficult pieces / Licks exercises, you will much. frustrated or tense. Or do not you play in the desired quality. Finished your training session with a piece that you like and not too complicated. Relaxes you and it plays for yourselves in your best quality. Through this exercise, it develops you over time, a repertoire of songs that feel good for you and which you can play it safe So you have always something handy when people ask you something to play.
Rating
What progress have you made in the difficult things during this session? Why should it work next time? If you want something very difficult play, it is difficult to assess objectively the same time. If you do it in the rehearsal room playing much. you get more feedback. If not think about you every now and then incorporated itself. And then you can sit back and listen to her you and play. Since not critical but objective: This is good, are hard at work I should.
And if you have no teacher to help and feedback plays for others (teachers, friends, musicians) as often as you can and listen very carefully to helpful feedback
