Seriously here, I'm not talking about the amount of time you spend, though that is important. I'm talking about how you spend your practice time and what songs you're working on in it. What's more important than just time is that every day you do practice, you are moving a ...
Read MoreWhat is music? The OED says "Music is vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and ...
View MoreSo the idea is to work on songs that are somewhat beyond you until they are within your grasp. But oddly enough, boredom and creativity are brothers. ...
View MoreYou are practicing to try and pull yourself up ability-wise, so you should be choosing songs to work on that are 5 to 10% above your present abilities ...
View MoreLook at the red square of my blurry diagram below - Licks/Study. (Notice on the diagram all the levels are in relation to what's hard or easy TO YOU) ...
View MoreHow hard should the songs I work on be? One way to answer this is what are you trying to accomplish with this song, what is this song supposed to do ...
View MoreWhen you learn a new technique or a different way to play or sing something, it's like your brain has planted a little seed; the idea has birthed a ...
View MoreTriangle of practice: performing a song well requires getting an A grade in 3 areas: Length of piece (L), accuracy of notes (A), and appropriate speed ...
View MoreAs I was saying on 2.6.15, if you never spend any money on savings, on the future, you're going to be in trouble in about 30 years, because you never ...
View MoreThe way most people should practice and build their musical abilities is to work on music theory, exercises, and performance (remember, studying music ...
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