How to organize your piano practice?

How do you organize your piano practice? And how do you fit it in your schedule?

For a steady progress, a piano student should practice about 3-4 times a week. Each practice should be at least 15 minutes. This is somewhat of a minimum as it all depends on what are the purposes and intentions of the person practicing. Someone who wants to play Chopin’s etudes, might have a longer runway practicing only 15 minutes 4 times a week.

Set your goals. “I want to play this song,” may be a goal. Your goals may expand into something like “I really want to play all the Beatles songs!” Well, that’s another level and practice time should probably be changed accordingly.

Now the organize part of the piano practice is something I will be covering in many post. The main thing I want to cover here is that some students sit down and actually loose most of their time playing around with no precise goal in mind.

1. Prepare your practice plan for that particular day
2. Start you practice!
3. Do each step of the practice plan
4. End your practice!
5. Then, if you still have time you can play around, and try this and that and other things not part of the practice plan

The reason I go this route is that some students have a hard time doing some of the things that might help them like……. SCALES!

Well, I want don’t to paint the picture that your practice is like the army boot camp. Practicing and improving your skills is very rewarding and that alone is much fun. (My opinion: this is much better than watching 2 hours of TV every day)

Ok enough for today. Let me know if you have any questions.

Patrick
lapianolessons.com

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