you need for a regular practice routine that contain certain fixed elements (such as Warmup exercises), as well as elements that address the changing your current serious consideration. The performance does not count as exercise. Despite playing wagons, performing in the church or for your personal enjoyment is a fundamental part of your musical development, it will not replace time in the exercise room.
there sometimes, but when you just can not maintain the normal practice routine. All other elements of your life in the crowd and find you have to grab a spare hour of practice wherever you can. It seems absurd to begin any exercise long-term projects which would require weeks or months of continuing work, because you know it will not happen.
so You should give up?
must you postpone the idea of improving your music until you have more time (Do you sure that the time will come)? Here& 39;s an alternative - I call it " bombing target. & Quot; has
you hour practice. Find something out that this practice is not currently in your arsenal. Can be Lick, scope, a set of chord voicings, some of the tune, wrote a Solo, anything. But this is important: You must be small. Do not put a general goal (for example, the mastery of the shuttle Tyner style improvisation pentatonic scale). Instead, select a little piece of business (such as pentatonic Lick certain to be learned in 12 keys). Assume that this is the only opportunity you have to know this particular item. Tomorrow will move on to something else.
approach hour practice with this position: " What can I do within the next hour on a permanent basis to improve one of my music in a very small but measurable way? & Quot;
more Specifically, " What can I I do a Master of the item and one even be self-reinforcing, so that it will immediately begin appearing in my actual performance? & Quot;
your plan for catching this one thing quite small and can not slip away.
if that a Lick, and made one short and I know that in many of the keyboard. And the signal finger.
play it more random from second to fifth respectively.
solo more than a few music and work in the Lick wherever you can.
if that chord voicing, in practical terms in the 12 keys, music to work, make sure you can make a smooth transition to and from other voicings.
if did not get that by the end of this hour, you lose it forever. But if you swallowed a sufficiently full, and then will immediately begin appearing in your own performance. It will become a small component of your style and you never lose.
this is the target of the bombing. It is intensive and focused, can be enormously effective and satisfactory. At the outset, although it may be used to the way in which you can not find more time for the traditional practice routine-oriented, may find that even success and fun you make it your primary approach.
after, you can climb mountains, with thousands of small steps. Every step taken in addition to that you never have to take it again.
i & 39; ve seen this approach to work and wonder many students, and used all the time myself. We have also failed miserably for others. It requires a kind of tunnel vision, and the desire to nibble one thing for two hours without being allowed to interfere with other concerns.
you may feel as if I was playing when you should act or to focus on a small area is not productive and when there is a lot of key areas to be covered. But once that goal successfully bomb a few small items, you can achieve sufficiency of interests.
anyway, try this method - to see if it fits your style.
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