Making Steady Progress

Ask yourself if you are making steady progress on your violin or band instrument. Monitor the amount of time you are practicing and the number of days you are practicing. You can make your own chart or ask me for one. If you are falling behind in your class assignments that would be a sign you need to spend more time practicing at home.

Today we learned about playing songs in small sections and working on those 2-4 notes slowly and increasing speed until it felt good. Then we added one more measure or a few more notes. Always starting slow when adding more notes and then increasing speed as it becomes easier to play.

In band I had mentioned that we would want to be sure every note we play sounds beautiful. If it is not beautiful, stop are begin again at a much slower speed. Do not increase speed unless each note is lovely. This would be true for violin students as well.

Have fun practicing – but practice with a purpose – increase your ability each time you practice. You are your own competition. Can you beat yourself at playing tomorrow? If you don’t practice today then you will lose to yourself tomorrow.

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