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Practice? This seams to be every other word
out of most music teachers mouths! This word is not as easily defined as
it may appear. How does this one word phrase apply to most
students? Generally speaking their are two specific items to
practice 1; the instrument it self, and 2; the music one is working on.
When your teacher tells you to practice, both should be down. To
practice the instrument scales, chords and various exercises which pertain
to your instrument should be accomplished, when that is done the specific
piece of music should then be practiced with specific detail to rough spots.
This is similar to training for a sport, before practice everyone warms
up for a half hour, regardless if it is tennis, wrestling or baseball in
similar fashions, then practice of the specific moves to that instrument
are practiced. A good example is wrestling- a wrestling coach will
make his team run five miles or so a day, why? obviously no one is running
in the ring!! The fact is that the benefits of running will help you wrestle
better and add to ones endurance. Scales are like running, everyone must
do them-even if the music one is working on does not have them, they will
add strength to ones hand and make even slow passages sound that much stronger.
Remember first practice your instrument, then practice your music!
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