How To Make Your Personal Practice Schedule?

Written by Zlata Brouwer
Published: December 31, 2013 at 2:16 PM [UTC]

Practice make perfect!
Yes, it certainly does, but only if you practice a lot in an efficient and effective way.

One way to do that is to create a systemized practice package and schedule for yourself with a clear goal. The pieces and exercises within this package must be effectively tuned to each other.

In this video I explain what your practice package must consist of to maximize the results from your practice time.

Is this video useful to you? Please let me know in the comments!

Love,

Zlata

PS: Do you have questions for me on violin or viola playing? Post a comment below or send an e-mail to info@violinlounge.com

From Laura Lyon
Posted on January 1, 2014 at 7:21 AM

Thank you Zlata for yet another interesting video. I don't always comment, but I generally watch all your video blog postings and always gain little bits of information, or solidify an understanding on something. I appreciate the time and thought you put into these. This particular one was timely in that I recently got more "geeky" with my practice schedule in that I am now using an app on my Ipod to break my practice schedule into very specific segments with a block of time devoted to each. When I practice, I am now using the app to capture how much time I actually am spending, but also to countdown and let me know when I am at the point where it would be appropriate to wrap up that segment and move on to the next (although if I am into I may ignore it and just keep going!). In this way, I am ensuring I am getting adequate focused time on exercises for bowing and tone improvement, scales, vibrato, etudes or position exercises, and (of course) assigned music pieces. What I got from your blog entry that I need to also remember, is to also give myself time to play familiar "easier" pieces regularly so that I strengthen prior progression and keep a repertoire of music for ease of playing. I do that frequently, but not part of my regular practice session... more when I just happen to have a little more time available and am not quite ready to quit for the day. Thank you for that important reminder. I will just have to squeeze a little more time in to end my session with a segment of "play something fun and easy for you". :)

From Zlata Brouwer
Posted on January 2, 2014 at 5:58 PM

Thank you very much for your comment and your additional tips, Laura!

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