A way to practice well and not feel like you’re dying from boredom (we’ve all been there!) Serves: 1 student (and 1 teacher by default) Total Time: 45 minutes Prep Time: 5 minute warm-up, 10-minute break Ingredients
Directions 1. Open teacher’s notes FIRST to see what will be due in the upcoming week(s). 2. Plan your practice session, set a goal for each piece, write down if you feel you might forget. For example: “I want to play all the right rhythms in this piece” or “I want to memorize these four measures today”. 3. Warm-up: scales/arpeggios/five-finger patterns. This is your opportunity to check hand position. Are fingers curved? Do you sound good? Warm-up with three different tempos: slow-medium-fast 4. Practice your first piece/assignment. Star with pencil any place that are hard to do. Spend 5-10 minutes fixing these starred sessions. 5. With each piece, check the goal you set in step #2. Can your goal be accomplished today? If not, can your goal be accomplished tomorrow? 6. If you do not complete a goal, write a note down in your practice journal to complete tomorrow. 7. After finishing your first piece, take a five-minute break. Even if you don’t feel tired, you were probably focusing for 10-15 straight minutes. That’s a lot. 8. Now you are about 15-minutes into your practice. Start your second piece, repeat steps #2-6. 9. Take another 5-min break. 10. It has now been 35 minutes. At this point of time, go BACK and review pieces #1 and #2. See if your short-term memory has learned anything. Did your pieces improve today? If not, no worries, you will have to work on it again tomorrow (with a different strategy than today since today did not work). Spend 5 minutes reviewing anything you might have forgotten over your 5-min break to reinforce your memory. 11. Now you are at the 40-minute mark! And you only did two pieces so far! But it has been very productive and by writing down what you want to do tomorrow, you will remember better what you learned today. Spend the last five minutes for personal pleasure (we often forget we are doing piano for fun). Explore a new piece that your teacher has assigned, improvise, write your own composition, or perhaps you have saved the last five minutes to revisit a piece you played before. If this is the case, make sure to make improvements to this piece. How can you be more artistic and interesting? 12. Come to next lesson…maybe you will sound so good that your teacher will actually make you a pie??? (Not Ms. Ellie. You don’t want her pies. They’re disgusting.)
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