Kick-Off: "How to practice when there's no time" with Phil Goldenberg
Welcome to the Kick-Off of "Change your Habits, Change your Playing" with Phil Goldenberg!
In this livestream I'll show you how to make the most out of a short practice session. Through hyper-targeted practice, smart warm-ups, and good organizational skills I'll show you how you can get the most out of a short session and keep your progress moving even when life gets busy.
Learn more about the Assignments in the dedicated Forum!
Forum Assignment:
Pick a challenging 20-30 second spot in your repertoire. Play it once or twice, then record it. Then, practice that section in a hyper-focused matter for exactly 3 minutes, then record it again and check out the improvement! Feel free to see everyone else's improvement and see if you can tell what they worked on for those 3 minutes.
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What time. I live in CST
Peter
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peter hancock that should be 1pm!
If you go to "Edit Profile" and then click on the "Account" tab, you can set your timezone, that should display the events in the timezones that you have specified!
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Martin Thanks I see it
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peter hancock
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Hi Thanks for your very interesting video - many useful ideas. I didn't unfortunately manage to watch it live so couldn't put these questions to you. I am into the idea of slow practising, however I find that I can play some passages really slowly with a particular fingering - often in the right hand, usually including m and a combinations somewhere - but as I increase the tempo they become impossible and I start to look for a different way. Indecision is a problem here as to gradually increase the tempo over a period of days having perfected something at a really slow tempo only to find that ultimately it won't ever work seems a real waste of time. I have had a lot of technical problems with m a combinations which I have improved somewhat recently but I'm not sure if they are something to be avoided or just need a lot more practise - any thoughts on this? I think what you say in your video makes complete sense if you are confident that the fingering you are practising is sound - I guess I'm going back a stage further here to the stage of actually deciding which fingering works
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hi, Phil, Thanks for this practice tip on isolating the difficult passage of music to our guitar playing practice. Normally, my practice session may last for 1 to 2 hours. starting with some interval and chords playing, scale, appreggio, and then learning the music I love to play. my tempo is not fix and starts at a slow or normal speed. Can we practise music faster than the indicated tempo on the music score?
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I watched it today. Thank you! Just what I need. I hope I can put it into practice!
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If it's helpful to anyone, there's an app called MultiTimer (for IOS, don't know if it's available for Android) that lets you set multiple timers in a nice, clean easy to read format. Been using it today to start with this kind of focused practice.
