subject: How To Get The Best Results Learning Your Instrument [print this page] Here are some tips that will be a guide to achieving proficiency in your chosen musical instrument. As with most things worth doing, this will require a good deal of quality work - concentration and dedication and good practice habits. Here we go!
Step 1. Make a commitment about practicing. This is an important point because without practicing your craft no amount of musical talent will pull you through. If you decide not do this, and you can still be highly proficient at what your instrument is, then you must be a "wunderkind".
Step 2. Practice putting yourself on the spot as if you were performing. Squelch the instinct to stop just because you made a error. This is a most important step that will require your complete attention. Do it in this way: Especially when sight reading this can be imperative to keep your mind completely activated and forces you to catch up.. The main reason why is that when your'e playing with others are not going to stop. It would be chaotic if they did.
Step 3. As opposed to step 2 it is also wise to stop playing if you encounter a difficult part of the music. The main reason for doing this is in order to analyze the stumbling block and figure out how to solve it. Also, it is best to keep from practicing a difficult passage, where you stumble, over and over so as to include that into your habits.
Step 4. Subsequent to dealing with the technical problems, musical expression is probably the most important. To extend the thought, very often people are excited by simple dexterity, but music without feeling is just plain uninteresting.
Step 5. Sight read every on a regular basis, preferably with others. in summery, you'll need to gear yourself up for a life of money problems and some lonely hours when you're out on the road or in the studio where it might take you more takes than you counted on to get the right take.
Finally, for those who have adhered to the above pointers will have succeeded and after this can sit back and relish the rewards of that success. You should acknowledge yourself and allow yourself some pride. You got what you set out to get! Savor the sweet taste of success! Now enjoy it!
For those who don't follow the tips above, shame, shame! You probably have decided that to make it in the profession just wasn't worth the cost to you! :-)
