TIPS FOR MUSIC PRACTICE | how to practice efficiently, memorizing & maintaining your repertoire

Practicing is how we get better at doing something, whether it is a musical instrument or another skill. In today’s video, I cover tips for music practice, how to practice efficiently, memorizing & maintaining your repertoire. Practicing is something musicians do on a daily basis, but it can often become overwhelming and discouraging. I explain my strategies on how to make an efficient and productive time, but also ways to still enjoy playing your instrument. Do you have any music practice tips? Enjoy and happy practicing!

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[amyspurrcaveney]

Do you have any tips for music practice? 😊

[BrentSnider]

This blew my mind! I already had a crazy respect for you music people, now my respect is at a whole new level! So much dedication to your craft.

[PianoSpiceRackwithJim]

Great job and I especially like how you said "you Bash through a piece and then you say I am all done practicing" too many enthusiasts do this at least within my 30 years of being a music educator I have seen this.

[someperson]

Remove distractions
Slow practice
Focus
Mental Practice
Patience, consistency, persistence
Repetition
Memorization
Listen to recordings, record yourself
Maintenance mode
Is the piece easy to play?
Can you play the entire piece correctly?

[brianputre]

These are great tips, thank you!! Practicing tiny little snippets can be such a drag sometimes but I'll try to do more of it. The slow practice is something I need to do more of too. For me, it's not so much that I play wrong notes, it's that the evenness that gets thrown off sometimes when I cut the tempo in half, particularly for the faster pieces. I also only tend to use the metronome when I think I "need" to use it, i.e. for select pieces, but I should probably do more of that too lol.

This will be specific to piano but when I memorize, I try to use a four-pronged memorization approach - memorize the sound/pitch, memorize the movement of my fingers, memorize the visual appearance of the notes on the piano being played, and memorize what the score looks like (to a certain extent). I find even if one of those 4 things is off that I can play it well memorized for a while, but there will come a day when I've magically "forgotten" it overnight and need to re-memorize. Depending on the piece and the extent to which the notes are "logical" in the sense that they can be thought of as broken out intervals within a given key signature with minimal accidentals, I find that memorizing hands separately and then putting them together after can greatly speed up the process too.

Thanks again!

[ronja]

Some great tips, thank you! I've been hitting a wall in my practice recently and I'm not sure whether it's because I'm not practising enough or not in the right way. Do you have a sense of the minimum time to practise for seeing progress?

[jspurr]

if you cant play it slow you cant play it fast...true story! great video!

[imitatefirst]

Thanks Amy. I’m a blues guitarist, ... but the principles and methods are universal, right? Thank you!

[nanaycholengskitchen]

hello beautiful, nice video! thanks for sharing! ;-)

[PianoSpiceRackwithJim]

lol, not sure if you need more coffee!! are you a sprinter btw?

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[sirlitoaliber]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Helps me a lot. Add me as your fan. God bless you more.

[ronja]

How do you split working on pieces vs doing exercises?